by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog
My Monitor column today wonders why the Tesla chargers at the Hooksett tolls aren’t used more (there aren’t that many Teslas on the road – d’oh!) and more importantly, why there aren’t any chargers that can fit other electric cars. The...
by David Brooks | Apr 25, 2016 | Blog
Lots of details in today’s Monitor (here) about the scaffolding and repair project on the N.H. State house dome. Mostly I write so Geoff Forester could take a nighttime photo of the scaffolding.
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2016 | Blog
A nice piece on Vox today about the five main obstacles facing autonomous vehicles covers material I’ve thought about (weather limiting sensors, AI is bad at figuring out what people are thinking) but also some things I hadn’t considered – such as:...
by David Brooks | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog
For the past couple of years the proposed Kinder-Morgan gas pipeline through southern New Hampshire has created protests and political posturing galore, but it was sheer business that killed it: Not enough power companies signed up to buy gas under the long-term...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog
Beverly Hills – a small California city you may have heard of – is planning to create a publicly accessible system using autonomous vehicles as point-to-point transportation, instead of something old-fashioned like buses. This is forward-looking and cool,...
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