Mark your calendars. This year, Drive Safely Work Week is Oct. 4-8, 2004.

Online debates about mass transportation sometimes devolve into a debate about personal rapid transportation (PRT). Now Ken Avidor, creator of the Road Kill Bill online comic strip, has created PRT is a Joke! to collect and debunk some of the many PRT myths. Favorite quote: PRT is "as realistic as crossing a sow and a centipede to obtain 100 hams."

Pedestrian turn signals: Ever since those really bright mini-lights made their appearance, this product was inevitable. Now someone's gone and built it. (Courtesy of Gizmodo)