Ahead of the Curve

Check out this video from the Driving Standards Agency in the United Kingdom. The fact that it softly drives home the message (no pun intended) about keeping up to date with driving standards. Of course in North America it is a bit more difficult to keep up with all of the changes from state to state and province to province, but a little reminder to drivers of all ages to refresh their knowledge could make our highways and byways a bit safer.

Check out the video of our CEO at AU 2009!

Featured Designer

December 2009 - Jim Poorbaugh

December’s Featured Designer is TORUS user Jim Poorbaugh, P.E. M.S.C.E., Project Manager for Bohannan Huston in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Although now a project manager, Poorbaugh’s passion is still for design - something that has been with him since his college days when he was drafting - by hand! We are excited to shine a spotlight on someone with a true enthusiasm for what he does.

Read article here

Perfect Parallel Parking?

Anyone who's driven has faced the trials of parking and that sometimes dreaded feat of parallel parking. A British Mathematician has no taken that problem and crunched the math to find the solution to parallel parking. Professor Simon Blackburn hopes "you enjoy seeing how mathematics can be used to answer questions that might occur to you in real life." This leaves one to wonder if he had to solve the math because his parallel parking skills weren't so good. Nonetheless, it is an interesting read, even for the mathematically challenged.

You can check out his work here

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A look into the future of highway transportation - circa 1958

This is an interesting look at our future from the past. Disney seemed to produce a lot of "World of Tomorrow" shorts in the 50's with unique visions of the not too distant future. It leaves one to wonder if any of the ideas in this one are still valid?

New Transoft Solutions Videos!

Just uploaded the presentation videos we took to AU 2009. Check them out on our videos page (here).

Are traffic lights in need of a redesign?

source: Yanko Design                           

Traffic lights have developed quite significantly since their debut in front of Parliament in London in 1868, but is it time to reconsider, or re-examine the traffic light? Industrial Designer, Damjan Stanković has a different take on traffic lights, especially red ones. Claiming that his design could lessen the amount of gasoline a vehicle uses, as drivers would be able to see how much time they'll be stationary and be able to shut off their vehicles. Perhaps.  The "progress bar" idea may work better on the green lights.

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