Fewer Wrecks, Grounded Planes, and More Car News This Week
Even in the midst of a pandemic, never doubt the world’s ability to surprise. This week, we tracked some remarkable trends. Serious crashes are,...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Stock Is ‘Too High’—and It Quickly Falls
He’s at it again.
Launching a Friday morning tweet-tear, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote, “Tesla stock price is too high imo .” Ask,...
Jaguar Envisions Car Design for a Post-Pandemic World
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Tesla Posts Another Profit as Musk Slams Virus Restrictions
Tesla on Wednesday reported its third consecutive quarterly profit, defying the projections of analysts who had expected the Covid-19 pandemic to drive the electric...
Planes Are Still Flying, but Covid-19 Recovery Will Be Tough
Over the past three months, Covid-19 has reduced air travel in the United States to the point where the fact of a nearly full...
Delivery Robots Aren't Ready—When They Could Be Needed Most
Starship and others building robots for sidewalks have faced criticism for operating there, where they compete with pedestrians and people in wheelchairs for space....
A Coronavirus Silver Lining: Less Driving, Fewer Crashes
For all the misery Covid-19 has wrought, the shelter-in-place orders imposed in the name of public health have yielded a few benefits, at least...
The Pandemic Could Be an Opportunity to Remake Cities
Last Tuesday, a Gemballa Mirage GT barrelled into a series of parked cars on a Manhattan street. The driver fled and was arrested. And...
Build Cities for Bikes, Buses, and Feet—Not Cars
The Parisian version of Octavia, it turns out, isn't all he'd hoped. “We screwed this one up,” Tumlin says. “The island is too narrow,...
Public Transit Cuts Hurt 'Essential' Workers Who Need It Most
Jason Young got up at 4am Friday. It was his daughter’s birthday, so he’d taken the early shift at the Giant Food grocery store...
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