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Many Americans need reliable public transit to get to school or work. Frank Hank
July 26, 2017Junfeng Jiao, University of Texas at Austin and...
Dyson’s Plan to Build Electric Cars Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds
No automaker likes hearing someone refer to one of its vehicles as an “appliance.” In an industry that trades on passion and excitement, reducing...
Truckers Win the First Battle of the Human-Robot War for Driving Jobs
A dais stuffed with well-fed lawmakers sure doesn't look like a battlefield, but make no mistake: The long-awaited war between self-driving vehicles and the...
London's Bid to Ban Uber Shows Cities Still Have Power
Cities have a love-hate relationship with Uber. On one hand, the San Francisco ridehailing giant has exploded transportation options for those with smartphones and...
London Wants to Kick Uber Out of the City
London could lose all of its Ubers, courtesy of the city’s transportation agency. On Friday, Transport for London announced it would not renew the...
Waymo Partners With Intel, Tesla Kills a Model S, a Lawyer Debates the Trolley...
Self-driving vehicles are well on the way to replacing human drivers. There are just a few problems. No one has a good idea of...
Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?
Recently, the “trolley problem,” a decades-old thought experiment in moral philosophy, has been enjoying a second career of sorts, appearing in nightmare visions of...
Freeways Is a Mobile Game That Lets You Play Traffic Engineer
The air sings with four-letter words. The iPad sits stoic as fingers poke, jab, and prod at its screen. Traffic engineering, it turns out,...
To Stop Distracted Driving, Researchers Monitor Drivers
Everyone knows that distracted driving is a problem, but it tends to fall in the “other people/not me” category of personal risk assessment among...
City of cars: Paying for public transport in Los Angeles
WHEN the Los Angeles transit authority extended a railway to link the city’s towering downtown to Santa Monica, a swanky seaside neighbourhood, last May,...
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