The city’s uptown traffic nightmare is expected to ease with the completion of a years-long project to rebuild the roadways surrounding the New Jersey Turnpike’s 14A toll plaza. The new ramps, which attach the Turnpike exit to both Chosin Few Way and southbound Route 440, will be open for motorists beginning Monday afternoon. Construction began in 2015 and was completed before the anticipated fall opening.

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Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving cars can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they’ve spent countless hours meticulously labeling the exact 3-D positions of lanes, curbs, off-ramps, and stop signs. Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

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Spanning 34 miles (55 kilometers), this is the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built. Due to open to the public this summer, this long snake of bitumen will connect a relatively small city on the Chinese mainland with the two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. But since the bridge was first suggested in 2003, it has stirred controversy. This massive span of concrete and steel is not just proof of China’s ability to build record-setting megastructure– it’s also   a potent symbol of the country’s growing geopolitical ambitions.

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