Hong Kong drives on the left side of the road, mainland China on the right. So how do you prevent crashes when driving between them? Like this…

To quell confusion at the border and, more importantly, to keep cars from smashing into each other, the Dutch firm NL Architects proposed a brilliant, simple solution, the Flipper bridge.

BYD is kind of a strange company. The Chinese automaker has $250 million from Warren Buffett plus a partnership with Daimler to build a four-door electric sedan, although it hasn’t yet produced an EV of its own. The company said that it put a plug-in hybrid the F3DM on sale in China this past December, but it hasn’t actually appeared in dealerships. BYD also had plans to put its electric e6 sedan in U.S showrooms by 2009–a plan that was recently deferred to late 2010. In February, a BYD spokesman denied any further delays with the e6.

The beef between Google and the Chinese government has been rocking along for a few weeks. Now we hear it’s been elevated to “boxing fight” status. The warning came from the Minister of Industry and IT, Li Yizhong, who was speaking to reporters at the annual National People’s Congress meeting. Li was very diplomatic about the matter, although noted that the government does actually support Google in its efforts to “expand its business and market share in China.”