Don't Turn Left
I just read an article about UPS and how they now route their delivery trucks so that they only have to turn left 10% of the time. No sitting at a light or fighting against traffic while spewing CO2 into the atmosphere. While this is probably acheived with some serious software developed by very smart developers, it all had to start with a simple idea. It probably sounded pretty funny in some conference room when proposed - "Let's have the trucks just turn right". But UPS is an innovative company and they went with it. This is the idea behind what we are trying to encourage with Viridus. We want to get these simple ideas out there and let them spread like wildfire. We hope that if someone works at a company who would consider "right hand turns only" a dumb idea, that they will post it to Viridus and let the world learn from it and benefit. Now, if I can only get my GPS unit to do the same. Does anyone know someone at Garmin?
Labels: auto emissions, Transportation, UPS







2 Comments:
Actually this article http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=3005890 claims the software and "no left turn" policy saves 3 million gallons of fuel per year.
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Anonymous, At
May 20, 2008 12:14 PM
Apparently also cut way down on accidents....
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Anonymous, At
July 13, 2008 6:38 PM
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