That's because the city has equipped three bus routes with wireless technology that can pull off a trick every commuter has dreamed of: switching a red light to green on command.
There's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium III processor and a hard drive, and the game controllers connect to the unit via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology that's typical of most PCs.
Jim Fletcher, a mechanical engineering doctoral student in fuel cell technology, said the bus is 10 percent more efficient than comparable diesel buses -- a first step in what researchers expect will one day be a far more efficient form of transportation.
Consumers are absolutely driving the bus and they decide and determine which technology channel they want to favor and use on a regular basis.
But when they raised the idea of plug-in technology, the union of bus drivers voted against their members plugging in cables on health and safety grounds.
The CEO did talk a bit about the technology, then swerved the metaphorical bus off the road, through the guardrail, and into the abyss.
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new video game console.
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And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.
Mr Johnson, who has long campaigned for a new bus for London, visited Wrightbus last November and described the design as a piece of "world class technology".
The two exchanges appear to make a good fit: The tech-fuelled Nasdaq, which is the world's largest electronic exchange, is home to technology bellwethers like Dell and Microsoft, while OMX is also technology-driven with the likes of Ericsson and Nokia in its ranks, along with truck and bus-maker Volvo.
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