Dan Moren
at 10:36 AM Feb 19 2015
Gadgets // 

Sometimes taking a cab is convenient--and sometimes it's necessary. If you go out celebrating and perhaps have a few too many cocktails, then you should look for a safe ride home. Ride-sharing service Uber has already helped reduce drunk driving crashes in California, according to a recent report from Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Now, thanks to a collaboration between Uber and portable breath analysis device maker Breathometer, it's even easier to know when you should be looking for a ride.

Junnie Kwon
at 09:46 AM Feb 13 2015
Cars // 

Britain's first driverless car doesn't look like a car at all. The electric-powered LUTZ Pathfinder launched Wednesday, wandering the sidewalks of London's Greenwich neighborhood, and it's closer in appearance to a runaway cockpit of a small airplane.

Dan Moren
at 10:36 AM Feb 10 2015
Cars // 

One of the better improvements of newer cars has been the addition of advanced safety features--including things like collision detection, lane change alerts, and more. But if you've got an older car, you've been missing out on these new improvements. That's where the crowdfunded CarVi hopes to come in, by bringing safer driving options, as well as driving assessment features, to older or less high-end automobiles.

Mary Beth Griggs
at 08:31 AM Feb 6 2015

Think the Sydney/Melbourne commute is bad? This week, the US Department of Transportation released Beyond Traffic, a report the agency describes as a 'draft framework' for the future of transportation in the United States. And as it stands, our future looks pretty bleak.

sarahfecht
at 07:15 AM Jan 27 2015
Cars // 

Winter is coming to the US Northeast. As the potentially 'crippling and historic' blizzard threatens to dump several feet of snow from Washington, D.C. to Maine, we turned to the Popular Science archives for advice.

AthertonKD
at 08:55 AM Jan 21 2015

If there are enough clear summer days in a row, Bye Aerospace's Sun Flyer may just live up to its name and charge in sunlight. Bye just sold twenty of their distinctive training airplanes to the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology. If the Sun Flyers take off, they could signal a future of more sustainable flying.

Amy Shira Teitel
at 10:22 AM Jan 19 2015

When Mike Adams called from the X-15 that he was in a spin, no one listening on the ground could believe it. The rocket-powered airplane was traveling around four times the speed of sound in the thin upper atmosphere. How could it be spinning? His wife and mother, both at Edwards that day, were quietly led out of the viewing area adjacent to the control room while ground crews tried to figure out what was going on. Less than a minute Adams' first mention of a spin, telemetry from the aircraft ceased. Another minute later chase planes saw dust kicked up in the desert below. On November 15, 2020, Adams became the X-15's first and only victim.

 
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