--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 3 description: After sanctions are lifted, will Iran be a Shiite Saudi Arabia? Also, the surge of attacks on schools in Africa, apps for cars and more. canonical: https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-03T16:01:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:44.007Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: How Iran could become a Shiite Saudi Arabia, apps for cars and more og:url: https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: How Iran could become a Shiite Saudi Arabia, apps for cars and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 3 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 3, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 3, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**With sanctions lifted, is Iran on its way to becoming a Shiite counterweight to Saudi Arabia?**](http://qz.com/371410/iran-could-become-a-second-saudi-arabia-if-sanctions-are-lifted/ "undefined") By Bobby Ghosh in Quartz **2\.** [**The al-Shabab attack on a college in Kenya is part of a dangerous terrorist trend of targeting schools in Africa.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/the-kenyan-school-attack-in-context/389408/ "undefined") By David A. Graham in the Atlantic **3\.** [**Finally, big data we can use: Precision traffic modeling lets cities program stoplights to reduce delays and carbon emissions.**](http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/smarter-stoplights-cut-greenhouse-gas-0331 "undefined") By David L. Chandler in MIT News **4\.** [**You are the first line of defense against identity theft, and you’re doing a terrible job.**](http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/31/one-year-on-from-heartbleed-you-dont-remember-it-and-thats-a-big-problem/ "undefined") By Stewart Rogers in Venture Beat **5\.** [**Coding the next generation of mobile apps means planning for self-driving cars and much more.**](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2904897/application-development/coding-for-cars-next-generation-mobile-apps.html "undefined") By Peter Wayner in InfoWorld  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 3","datePublished":"2015-04-03T16:01:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:44.007Z","description":"After sanctions are lifted, will Iran be a Shiite Saudi Arabia? Also, the surge of attacks on schools in Africa, apps for cars and more.","url":"https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/","keywords":["Innovation","Iran","cars","Terrorism","Email","Schools","Nuclear Weapons","Sanctions","Traffic","Kenya","deal","attacks","identity theft","emissions","Al-Shabaab"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3770277/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-3/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 3"}}]}] ```