To 21st-century American ears, that sounds like nothing to get flustered about. “I’m going to chance it, you know,” he says.
With two days’ notice, Fred is leaving England for Australia, trading the security of his office job for the risk of adventure in a new, wide-open country.
A comfortable home, it’s a bit of a stretch for their budget, so they have a boarder - Fred Tennant, a pleasant young clerk.Īnd Fred, it turns out, has news that will send shock waves through the Wilsons’ peaceful marriage and the contented, conformist lives of their extended family. GPS enables us to.On a Saturday afternoon in April, warm sunshine streams through the French doors of Lily and Charley Wilson’s rented London house, with its modest garden just outside. The charges must be set progressively: fancy vehicles should pay more, while modest two-wheelers and the like travel free. Conveyed in real-time to users via an online app, price data could optimize traffic flows and make our urban commutes easier. Sky-cams could easily track congestion like Google Maps does, while software could use these inputs to vary route prices by demand and supply to nudge users this way or that. They could also help us adopt a wider system of dynamic road pricing. Second, GPS trackers enable payment only for the road length used, which is much fairer. Despite swipe-past car tags, too much time and fuel get wasted in policy-made snarls. For one, given India’s swelling road usage, all choke points need to be eliminated. Yet, a proposal to deploy global positioning system (GPS) satellites in place of FASTag readers at toll barriers for highway charges is an idea rich in potential. So even the adoption of tech solutions to ease traffic is often met with cynicism. The reality of Indian roads is askew from the spiffy infrastructure blueprints that get bandied about.
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