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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
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London Wants to Kick Uber Out of the City
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Waymo Partners With Intel, Tesla Kills a Model S, a Lawyer Debates the Trolley...
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Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?
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Freeways Is a Mobile Game That Lets You Play Traffic Engineer
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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
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FEW cities these days have the cachet of Toronto. It ranks high on lists of the world’s most “liveable” cities (the Economist Intelligence Unit,...
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