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I’m seriously looking forward to the Magic Highways of the future!
via kottke Highly specialized pleasure vehicles with every convenience of home!? Cargo rockets!? Nuclear tunnel melters!? Cantilevered mountain highways?! …man the days when driving and highways were – literally – paving the path to a Utopian future. Today, of course, they are mainly the bane of urban and suburban living. Most people I know will …
Instrument panel of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is visually disgusting.
via nytimes.com Hmm, let’s see: 11 icons, most sporting a unique visual style. Random alignment of text and graphics. Some 3-d, some flat, some drop-shadowed. At least three different fonts. Text bleeding past the edge of the encasing box. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a worse attempt at data display. Truly awful.
Atrios on the user experience of parking lots
What Atrios said: One thing that’s been puzzling me lately is just how unconcerned parking lots are with the pedestrian experience. I get that parking lots are about, you know, cars, but people still have to travel from their cars to the Wal-Mart somehow yet there’s almost nothing in their design to appropriately accommodate people.
