Hövding Airbag Collar for Cyclists
• arcleino ensure the air bag doesn’t inflate during the normal course of a ride, the designers say they studied the movement patterns of a large number of riders in everyday cycling situations over a numbe
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Google tests cars that drive themselves, in traffic
• Agence France-Presse via The Raw StoryAn electronic brain devised by US Internet titan Google has driven cars nearly a quarter of a million kilometers in California, on a quest for the next great revolution in the auto industry.
New Kind of Uranium Could Power Your Car
• ERIC BLAND via ABCNews.comA newly discovered form of uranium could lead to a nuclear power plant small enough to fit in your car and eventually even power it.
German scientists unveil self-driving car
• AFP"In the future it will be forbidden for safety reasons for people to drive cars," predicted Raul Rojas, professor at Berlin's Free University (FU). "The cars of today are the horses of yesterday." "In five to 10 years the technology could be appli
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
• Washington PostAnyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof. Harder to notice was that the person at the wheel was not actually driving.
Hoover Dam bypass bridge rises under a shadow
• LV Review JournalWhen it opens to traffic, now scheduled for next week , it will be a relief to commuters, to interstate travelers and, especially, to the truckers who for nine years have taken the long way through Laughlin to deliver their goods to Las Vegas.
At the Paris Auto Show, Supercars and Stylish Concepts
• Jon Alain Guzik via PopSci.comIn 1898 the world's first auto show was held in Paris at the Tuilleries Gardens. Only a few vehicles were on display, and people were so skeptical of this new mode of transportation -- Le Car --
First Buyers of Nissan Leaf Get a Trunkful of Perks
• Bill Vlasic via The New York TimesTax credits, rebate checks, personalized home visits, government giveaways — even customer service calls from top corporate executives.
The Praxeology and Ethics of Traffic Lights
• mises.org / Justin T.P. QuinnTraffic lights, erected by the state for the sake of "public safety," encourage dangerous and aggressive behavior, contradict other laws at the expense of justice, and are responsible for the loss of vast amounts of wealth and countless lives.
Jaguar's C-X75 Concept: A 205MPH Electric Supercar
• PopSiHappy 75th birthday to British automaker Jaguar! As a birthday present, they've actually given us something new to drool over: A 780 hp mostly-electric supercar capable of hitting 250 mph with a whopping 500-mile range, all wrapped in a body inspire
Inside the World’s Most Opulent Private Jets
• News Link“My catch phrase is Capturing Aircraft Ambiance,” says Gleis. “Every photograph taken aboard an aircraft is an attempt to draw the viewer into the world that I am surrounded by when I take the photograph; a communication of the feeling that world giv
X Prize Marks Fuel-Efficiency Spot For Future Cars
• News LinkA car you can push around.
Bikers make noise on attempt to quiet motorcycles
• APThe state Senate made it a violation to ride a roaring hog. The only catch is that the decision now falls to the state's biker-in-chief, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an avid motorcyclist. Still bitter over an 18-year-old state law requiring helmets —
Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950
• News LinkTraffic deaths have plummeted across the United States to levels not seen in more than a half-century, spurred by technology, safety-conscious drivers and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.
Ohio State's Buckeye Bullet Smashes World Record For Fastest Electric Car
Ernest HancockThis week the team took the Buckeye Bullet version 2.5, the team's battery powered, all-electric landspeed racer out to the Bonneville Salt Flats to break the electric car land speed world record, and they did exactly that, hitting a peak speed of 3
Driverless Vehicles Go Manual in Moscow
• ABC NewsA pair of fender-benders, two technology-loving hitchhikers and 22 hours blocked at the Russian border. That's the balance sheet so far for a team of driverless vehicles on a 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) roadtrip from Europe to China.
China Develops Mega Straddle Buses
• arcleinThis bus straddles the road allowing it to pass over the normal road traffic on China’s busy city streets. The buses are 6 meters (18 feet) wide and 4.5 meters (13.5 feet) high which means they take up two roa
Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers -- Control Brakes, Engine
• ABC NewsIt sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car's engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.
Photographer Attacked by Security Guards for Taking Lawful Photos
• Photography Is Not A Crime"In front of a cable/satellite news team with cameras rolling, a Miami-Dade Metrorail security guard ripped my video camera from my hand, knocking it to the ground, before pocketing it and refusing to return it. The guard then began pushing me agg
The Chevy Volt Gets a Price Tag: $41,000 Before Tax Credit, First Deliveries in November
• Clay Dillow via PopSciWhen the Chevy Volt concept first materialized a few years back, there were a lot of questions surrounding America’s first mass-market electric car. While answers to most of those questions dribbled out over the last few years, GM remained mum on one
Archive Gallery: The Electric Car, 1916-Present
• PopSci.comElectric cars are nothing new: From lever-powered hybrids to generator-towing luxury cars, we've tracked their progress for nearly a century
Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines
• Jon Alain Guzik via PopSciClever engineering makes Porsche’s hybrid genuinely efficient
Honda Discovers Cars With Cords
• Chuck Squatriglia via WIREDHonda, realizing this electric car thing isn’t a fad, says it will have a plug-in hybrid and a battery electric vehicle on the road in 2012. But that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on hydrogen.
Inspector General Criticizes Treasury's Role In GM, Chryslsr Dealer Closures
• The Huffingtion PostA government watchdog is criticizing the Treasury Department for urging General Motors and Chrysler to quickly reduce the size of their dealership networks -- a move that cost jobs during the recession. The special inspector general for the govern
You Built What?! The 200-MPG Aerocycle
• Gregory Mone via PopSciA motorcycle with an aerodynamic shell gets more than 200 miles per gallon
The Inside Story of the MotoCzysz E1pc, the World's Most Advanced Electric Motorcycle
• Wes Siler via PopSciOn the eve of its first race--at one of the toughest and most dangerous motorcycle racetracks in the world--we take an exclusive inside look at one man's quest to engineer the ultimate electric race bike
Driven: How Henrik Fisker Aims to Floor the Auto Industry
• Chuck SquatrigliaAfter conjuring up such lust-worthy machines as the Aston Martin DB9 and the BMW Z8, the designer is now CEO of his own startup, Fisker Automotive. He aims to rock the market with a gorgeous $90,000 plug-in hybrid and a business model that’s more Sil
Quiet Hybrids: An Mandated End to Their Sounds of Silence?
• APThe age of the silent hybrid may be coming to an end. Some researchers and safety groups say that quiet operation — "hybrid creep" — can pose risks for unsuspecting pedestrians and the blind, who use sound cues. Advocates for the blind have sought
Vampires in Colorado?
• kdvr FOX 31If a Western Slope woman is to be believed, vampires may be lurking in Colorado's Grand Valley which would explain why she crashed her car.
Tesla increases size of IPO by 20 percent
• ReutersElectric carmaker Tesla Motors raised the number of shares it will sell in its initial public offering by 20 percent, an early sign that investor interest in the startup is strong.
