How Not to Be a Networking Leech: Tips for Seeking Professional Advice
Businesspeople generally think of networking as a mutually beneficial meeting for both parties.
But that’s not usually what it is. Far more often, it is one person asking the other for a favor.
I have been a management consultant, business owner and speaker for more than 12 years. Before that, I was a business executive and a trial lawyer. Along the way I have received invaluable advice from others — guidance that educated me and helped me make important professional connections.
Because this advice has been such a great help to me, I believe in helping others in the same way, without expecting anything in return.
Connected Vehicles: Wireless Control for Safer Stops and Crash-Free Travel
Wireless control techniques will cut accidents on the road and in the air - but can connected vehicles be safe from hackers?
For police trying to stop offenders in stolen cars the weapon of choice has become the ‘stinger’ - a simple chain of spikes designed to blow out the tyres of the oncoming vehicles. But they take time to deploy and lead to risks for the police stretching them across the road.
In the attempt to avoid a stinger spread across half of the road in a high-speed chase, a teenage vehicle thief mowed down Merseyside police constable Dave Phillips in October 2015.
Helicopter Parents Might be Creating Hazards for Teen Drivers, Survey Finds. Turns Out They Can’t Resist Texting Them.
Helicopter parents could be increasing the risk that their children will wreck the car each time they can’t resist texting their teenager while the kid is driving.
That’s the finding of a survey released this week that explored the disconnect between what people think and what people actually do.
About 96 percent of drivers in the survey see using an app — which could include taking selfies, using the GPS or even changing tunes on a music device — as distracting and potentially dangerous; yet, 68 percent admit doing it.
NAFA Expands Sustainability Mission With Training Event In California
NAFA Fleet Management Association, a pioneer in the sustainable fleet movement, will be leading a Sustainable Fleet Training Day event during the Northern California Clean Technology Forum & Equipment Expo in Sacramento, CA on October 19.
This half-day event builds upon the Association's ambitious sustainability objectives which includes NAFA's influential Sustainable Fleet Accreditation Program, developed in collaboration with CALSTART. This program currently comprises 22 accredited fleets and an additional 20 enrollees.
MIT Game Forces Self-Driving Cars to Choose Between Passengers and Pedestrians
As self-driving cars slowly make their way onto our roads, how will developers help these autonomous vehicles make difficult decisions during accidents? A new MIT project illustrates just how difficult this will be by mixing gaming with deep moral questions.
The Moral Machine presents you with a series of traffic scenarios in which a self-driving car must make a choice between two perilous options.
Should you avoid hitting a group of five jaywalking pedestrians by hitting a concrete divider that will kill two of your passengers?
