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Those who sought his views were advised to wander into his vicinity as if by accident and to “talk as it were into vacancy.”
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Is there another role for us in the smart city apart from serving as convenient repositories of data? In his 1980 book Practice of Everyday Life, the Jesuit social historian Michel de Certeau suggested that resistance to the “celestial eye” of power from above must be met by the force of “ordinary practitioners of the city” who live “down below.”
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
technologyreview.com
In 2021 the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required improved rear underride guard performance, but the resulting NHTSA regulation is weaker than most industry standards and notably lacks standards for single-unit trucks, such as dump trucks. In response, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have introduced the STOP Underrides Act (S. 605), which would require rear, side, and front underride guards on all commercial no vehicles, including single-unit trucks.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
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