Random links
- New travel demand projections are due from U.S. DOT. Will they be accurate this time?
- "as VMT (vehicle-miles traveled) growth slowed, stalled out, and then went into decline, the DOT has consistently just forecast that it’s on the verge of taking off again."
- Nobutaka Aozaki
- Modern 'art': "The artist takes one canned good to multiple supermarkets and re-buys it. This single can of corn has been re-bought from 105 supermarkets for a total of $113.07. "
- Hope for healthcare?
- On one US hospital finally getting some others to emulate it after posting comparatively low, fixed prices on its website. "The established hospitals, working with the established insurers were not competing with each other. It took an upstart with a new business model to provoke competition. It is ever thus, but this is not the model our regulators use when they think of competition. Another interesting observation. The existing insurers were not at all anxious to save money through him. He had to go around them to cash customers, Canadians, and directly to companies."
- The Science Is Clear: Don't Text and Walk
- "Being distracted by texting makes people walk more slowly and crookedly, and they are more likely to be hit by car."