Civil authorities around the world have tried all kinds of tricks to get drivers to slow down: speed bumps, rumble strips, flashing lights, the decoy police cruiser, and of course the good old-fashioned speed trap. The British Columbia Automobile Association Traffic
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A University of Michigan researcher thinks we can triple the fuel economies in our petroleum-powered vehicles in the next 25 years. All we need to do is replace horsepower with brainpower.
John
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You may not have heard about it during your local traffic report this weekend, but anyone negotiating the Beijing-Tibet expressway in recent days is painfully aware of the problem: a 100 kilometre jam that slowed
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Public transit in a metropolitan area is all about balance; if there aren't enough public transit options, too many people choose to drive, clogging roadways and adding to pollution. But trains are expensive (and, if above-ground, contributors to traffic) and adding more buses to the road can
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An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step -- driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team
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Automakers are already mass producing cars that will parallel park themselves, but the rudimentary sensor-based systems on the latest Lexus or Buick have nothing on Junior. The Stanford Racing Team's autonomous car can throw itself
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Texas is known for its wide open spaces and a certain enthusiasm among its citizens for traversing them by automobile. So it's appropriate that IBM and the Department of Transportation are planning an upgrade for car culture in the Lone Star State. Texas will serve
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With all the focus on hybrids and electric cars, you might assume that the internal combustion (IC) engine was headed for extinction. Yet more than 99 per cent of the world's new cars still use one. That includes conventional hybrids, whose batteries and electric motors
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Every time a bus, police car or mini sightseeing cart go by, you hear it: the soft buzz of an electric motor pushing wheels on pavement. Almost every official vehicle for the Expo is electric, whether it's powered by fuel cells, batteries or supercapacitors.
Shanghai already
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It may have been an unglamorous 15 hours from JFK to Shanghai in coach, but once on the ground, my transportation prospects improved significantly: I floated into the city levitating on a magnetic field at 260km/h.
The train that connects Shanghai's Pudong International
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Civil authorities around the world have tried all kinds of tricks to get drivers to slow down: speed bumps, rumble strips, flashing lights, the decoy police cruiser, and of course the good old-fashioned speed trap. The British Columbia Automobile Association Traffic
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With all the focus on hybrids and electric cars, you might assume that the internal combustion (IC) engine was headed for extinction. Yet more than 99 per cent of the world's new cars still use one. That includes conventional hybrids, whose batteries and electric motors
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There are currently more than 60,000 taxis cruising around Japan, a number that accounts for 20 per cent of the country's CO2 emissions. To promote environmental health, the Japanese government has joined with Better Place, a US firm specialising in electric
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Public transit in a metropolitan area is all about balance; if there aren't enough public transit options, too many people choose to drive, clogging roadways and adding to pollution. But trains are expensive (and, if above-ground, contributors to traffic) and adding more buses to the road can
Read more...
Automakers are already mass producing cars that will parallel park themselves, but the rudimentary sensor-based systems on the latest Lexus or Buick have nothing on Junior. The Stanford Racing Team's autonomous car can throw itself
Read more...
You may not have heard about it during your local traffic report this weekend, but anyone negotiating the Beijing-Tibet expressway in recent days is painfully aware of the problem: a 100 kilometre jam that slowed
Read more...
A University of Michigan researcher thinks we can triple the fuel economies in our petroleum-powered vehicles in the next 25 years. All we need to do is replace horsepower with brainpower.
John
Read more...
An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step -- driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team
Read more...
Responding to concerns about Toyota's recall of 8 million cars, President Obama has asked the National Academy of Science (NAS) and NASA to
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Every time a bus, police car or mini sightseeing cart go by, you hear it: the soft buzz of an electric motor pushing wheels on pavement. Almost every official vehicle for the Expo is electric, whether it's powered by fuel cells, batteries or supercapacitors.
Shanghai already
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GM's buyout negotiations with a Chinese firm have failed, ceasing production of the storied gas-guzzler
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Civil authorities around the world have tried all kinds of tricks to get drivers to slow down: speed bumps, rumble strips, flashing lights, the decoy police cruiser, and of course the good old-fashioned speed trap. The British Columbia Automobile Association Traffic
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It's Friday again! This is what pure awesomeness tastes like. So to ease you into the weekend, check out this great video
Petter Solberg, former World Rally Champion, displaying why he isn't a rocket scientist.
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In breaking news the FIA, who run Formula 1, and FOTA, the Formula One Teams Association, have been unable to come to terms on a deal to go ahead with the 2010 F1 World Championship
Formula 1 as we know looks like it is over. The most famous motorsport in the world
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The host of the final round of this years F1 World Championship let?s you drive the challenging track
Abu
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Australian David Brabham, son of racing legend and three-time F1 World Champion Jack, has won the famous Le Mans 24-Hour Race in France
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In 2009 Formula 1 teams are beginning to use kinetic energy recovery systems. Popular Science investigated how it all works
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Sebastien Vettel?s desperate defence of second position in the Australian Grand Prix with just two laps to go explained
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In the March issue of Popular Science (out now), we explore the world of Formula 1 in detail. Here's a sneak peek at part of what we dug up; the low down on the steering wheel
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Responding to concerns about Toyota's recall of 8 million cars, President Obama has asked the National Academy of Science (NAS) and NASA to
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