Category: Oddities

Neglecting Accuracy

Public transport is part of our daily mobility business. But since some decades public transport is mapped in a schematic way. The question is why, because it started with geographically accurate representation...

Last Year’s Leftovers

2023 was, again, a year of extremes. We don’t want to be too political, thus let’s focus on some absurdities we have found in the ordinary world...

Back from the Future

The traffic infrastructure in China is special, not only for its deferred turning lanes but also for its high use of I2X features...

Get Lost

The Russian government decided to start jamming the signals from the global positioning system in Moscow and side effects are impacting the Russian civilians...

Claim your Claim

We once pointed out that borders are often just imaginative lines and could be confusing regarding the jurisdiction. Here we see that this concerns our daily life...

Getting Support for New and Familiar

We had a look into the German research funding on automated driving topics because we had the feeling that something might be odd. We found overlaps and interesting as well as "interesting" projects among them...

People’s Republic Perspective

Have you ever visited China using a map service and asked yourself, why the road networks are not matching the aerial images? And when checking in China, everything fits?...