How High-Tech Driving Aids Keep You Out of Trouble; Google's Effort to Speed Up Mobile Web

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Featured Video How High-Tech Driving Aids Can Keep You Out of Trouble There are a lot of robotic safeguards in new cars, capable of doing everything from stopping your car before an immobile object, to perpendicularly parking the vehicle for you. But are they a hinderance more than a help? High-performance driving enthusiast Jon Phillips, editor in chief of PCWorld, looks at safety novelties such as blind spot detection, a lane keeping aid and parking assistance in a new Ford Edge, and gives his verdict on whether they're worth all the hype. He also suggests other automatic safeguards cars should have. ==================================================================== Not All Published Economics Papers Are What They Seem How reliable are the findings in economics studies? Not very, according to Federal Reserve researchers Andrew Chang and Phillip Li. Only one-third of the results in a series of economics papers written from 2008 to 2013 could be replicated by independent parties. Even with the authors' help, findings in less than half of 67 papers could be verified. That places economics in the same doubtful category as studies on cancer and psychology, according to Business Insider. ===================================================================== Additional Features Hands on With the New iPhone 6S Plus (video) Google Launches Effort to Speed Up Mobile Web Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Narrowing or Widening? ==================================================================== The Cost of Cyber Crime in the United States What can a cyber attack cost your organization? The 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: United States, sponsored by HP, demonstrates how to improve your company's online security by showing what attacks have done to major entities such as Anthem Blue Cross, United Airlines, the Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Personnel Management. ===================================================================== Follow Slashdot on Twitter and on Facebook.     You have received this message because you signed up to receive mailings from Slashdot. If you no longer wish to receive this Slashdot Resources newsletter, click the Unsubscribe link below. You are subscribed to the Slashdot Resources newsletter as samuel.goulder@gmail.com   To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-47675@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 225 West Santa Clara St., Suite 1150 | San Jose, CA 95113 To view our Privacy Policy click here.