Articles tagged “safety”

You will dance, and you may need a bit of oxygen.

The discoveries are not so much about the TSA being more vigilant as they are about the growing number gun owners who tend to be more forgetful than their more responsible forebears.

Creating a pilot records database out of airline employment records that currently exist on everything from Excel spreadsheets to tattered paper files and PDFs could be more difficult to get together than a certain federal government healthcare insurance website.

Twitter has already proven to be a lifeline for people caught in the middle of a disaster. Limiting alerts to public organizations may help curb the spread of misinformation, but the alerts will still only reach Twitter users who sign up for the service -- a relatively small number of citizens.

The suggestions are surely well-founded, but airlines and airports in this market are unlikely to adopt policies demanding short-term investments - even if they do offer long-term returns.

If you want to use Google Glass in an automobile, hire an Uber black car, rent a Zipcar and have a friend get behind the wheel as a designated driver, or borrow a Google driver-less vehicle. Otherwise, the ticket inevitably will be more expensive than, well, shelling out for Google Glass.

The devil will indeed be in the details about the cruise lines' decision to begin publishing allegations about onboard crimes on their websites. This would be a big improvement in transparency for passengers, although the decision occurred with the prospect that Congress might have forced the cruise lines to do it anyway.

The Senate committee convened to talk about more consumer protections. Case in point: Carnival was telling everyone about the wonders of the repaired Carnival Triumph in June, and wasn't transparent about letting passengers know that the ship had just failed an inspection because of fire detection and lifeboat drill problems, among others.

There you go, problem solved. You feel safer now?

Female safety is a concern from the streets of Medellin to the alleys of Bangkok to the nightclubs of New York City, but cities that make a concerted effort to cater to the safety and needs of female travelers will see the benefits of friendlier reputations and higher visitation in the coming years.