Published on: 2025-05-17 18:02:26
When it comes to the New York City subway, what once was old is new again. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday revealed a revamped map of the city’s subway system that takes its cues from a 1970s throwback that was cheered by design connoisseurs and reviled by many traditionalists. It is the first major overhaul of the subway map to be introduced by the authority in almost 50 years. The reveal of the map, on a train platform in Times Square, was another step in the M.T.A.’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 00:20:38
There are few things scarier to the conservative mind than mass transportation in a major metropolitan city. To that end, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, is demanding New York City officials provide a list of actions that they will take to reduce crime on the city’s subway system or risk losing out on federal funds. In a letter delivered Tuesday to New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority head Janno Lieber, Duffy asked for a list of “actions and pl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 20:30:46
Anyone who has rode the New York City subway can tell you that it has a lot of problems, from strange noises to flammable debris on the tracks. Now, as is the solution for everything these days, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is testing how AI could improve the repair process with the help of six Google Pixel phones. In this case, the Google Pixel phones rode on four different subway cars between last September and January. The experiment, conducted in partnership with Google P
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 10:33:22
Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR Identifying maintenance needs for subway tracks is a labor-intensive process. Recently, Google teamed with NYC to see if Pixel phones could use their sensors to cheaply spot problem areas. Over a four-month test, the Pixel phones detected 92% of problems later confirmed by experts. Your smartphone is utterly packed to the brim with sensor of all kinds. Some of those are out in the open, like the cameras our phones use to image their surroundings, while ot
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