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New Robot Taxi Ad Highlights the Real Benefits of Driverless Cars

Self-driving cars are coming to a street near you. And their earliest customers might not be harried tech-savvy millennials in big cities, but rather their grandparents out on the farm. Tech titans like Google, Uber, and Apple, plus auto giants like BMW, Mercedes and Toyota, are racing to plop driverless cars on the road. In…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Oct 1

How To Fix A Flat Tire When You’re Stranded In The Middle Of Nowhere

If you’re going to go off-road in your car or on your motorcycle, you need to know how to fix a flat tire. You’ll often be a long ways from help and likely without cell reception. Luckily, it’s easy to do. We just made a video showing you how. IndefinitelyWild is a new publication about…

Tech News Wes Siler Sep 30

Can One Day Without Cars Really Change Our Travel Habits?

It is said that on average, we take 66 days to form a new habit. So when an initiative sets out to change our habits in just 24 hours, there’s cause for scepticism. World Car-Free Day aims to do just that. The thought is that by closing city centres to cars for one day a…

Tech News Jillian Anable - The Conversation Sep 29

110-Year-Old Electric Car Sells for $95,000

Teslas might be ‘practical’ and ‘fast’ and other useful things, but they’re also a little nouveau riche. If you want real electric-car class, you’ve got to hark back to 1905, and this very expensive vintage golf cart. The 1905 Woods Electric Queen Victoria Brougham — described by Bonhams as still functional and recently driven —…

Tech News Chris Mills Sep 28

Elon Musk: Dieselgate Proves It’s Time to Go Electric

While the EPA is promising to toughen up emissions tests in the aftermath of the Volkswagen cheating scandal, Tesla founder Elon Musk has a slightly different take: Gas is dead and it’s time to go electric, people. While speaking to a room full of reporters yesterday, Musk was asked whether dieselgate would cause people to…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 26

Inside the Engineering of the World’s First 1,000mph Car

Yesterday, a team of British engineers unveiled Bloodhound SSC: the world’s most powerful car, intended to reach speeds of over 1,000mph. Standing beside what looks like a rocket-on-wheels, it’s obvious what a marvel of engineering it is. We spoke to the team’s Lead Mechanical Engineer to find out how the vehicle was built. Measuring 13.5…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 25

All the awesome cars from Mad Max: Fury Road in one cool graphic

One of our favorite artists, Scott Park, illustrated 33 of the cars from Mad Max: Fury Road and they look great. You’ll see Furiosa’s War Rig and the Interceptor and the Gigahorse and more drawn in a really fun style. You can buy the actual poster here. Here’s a closer look at some of the…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 24

Apple CarPlay Review: Siri’s a Boring But Useful Travel Pal

The first time I saw CarPlay in action, I couldn’t believe it. You could plug your iPhone into the infotainment system and then get iOS on your dashboard?! It seemed like Apple finally found a way to turn an automobile into a rolling computer like Knight Rider. But after spending a few days using CarPlay,…

Reviews Adam Clark Estes Sep 24

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Apple’s electric vehicle project, once a blurry rumor, is coming into increasingly clear focus. A major scoop from the Wall Street Journal today gives us details about the car’s team, manufacturing, and a ship date–of 2019. The sources of the Wall Street Journal’s Daisuke Wakabayashi are anonymous—he citied “people familiar with the matter”—but Wakabayashi has…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 21

Honest trailer for Furious 7 proves that it was the perfect mix of silly and awesome

An easy way to weed out un-fun people who you shouldn’t hang out with is to find folks who don’t enjoy the Fast and Furious series and then stay far, far away from them because they don’t enjoy the best thing in life: stuff that is just stupid but awesome and totally silly but so…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 15

10,000 NYC Vehicles Are Going To Test the Government’s Connected Car Tech

We knew that the US Department of Transportation was testing connected vehicle technology in the relatively small town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. But now that tech is getting a big test in a big city: New York. This afternoon a group of city and federal officials announced the funding of a pilot project that will…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 14

Crazy man drives a car over a fiery ramp that jumps straight into a lake

I don’t know if a car stunt can get any crazier than this. Car on fire? Check. Man jumping out of the car on fire? Check. Car plunging into a lake while the man is jumping out of the car on fire? Check. It is totally spectacular and also just plain nuts. Also, it has…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 9

My Afternoon With James Bond’s Amazing Spy Vehicles

I grew up with James Bond. That’s not a huge exaggeration. I remember proudly telling my babysitter I’d been watching the films for years. My favorite parts: the chase scenes. So when I went to London last month and discovered Bond in Motion, a museum exhibit filled with actual Bond vehicles, I drooled a bit.…

Gadgets Sean Hollister Sep 8

AT&T’s New Gadget Will Put Wifi in Your Old Ass Car

In-car wifi is equal parts mind-bending and irresponsible-seeming. But you know you want it, and you’ve only been able to get it in brand new cars that are already computers on wheels. Until now, that is! AT&T just announced a new gadget called Mobley that plugs into your car’s on-board diagnostics port, and when you…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 8

Kylo Ren’s Hot Wheels Car Is Cooler Than his Spaceship

There are no cars in the Star Wars universe—at least as we know them—but Hot Wheels makes a strong case for the next three sequels to consider swapping spaceships for hot rods. Because Kylo Ren’s Hot Wheels character car actually looks way cooler than his spaceship does. The vehicle’s cockpit draws inspiration from Kylo Ren’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 3

Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day

Most major cities now have their own versions of open streets events that temporarily transform streets into car-free freeways for the day. Some of these have gotten quite expansive: Each Sunday, Bogóta famously closes about 80 miles of streets. But Paris is hoping to best everyone next month by closing a large, contained portion of…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 28

Uber Just Hired the Car Hackers That Stopped Chrysler In Its Tracks

Uber has hired the hackers behind one of the most terriyfing hacks in recent memory. You’ll remember Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek as the security researchers who last month demonstrated their ability to stop Chrysler vehicles in their tracks remotely by hacking their internet connected powers. As we shared at the time, the hack affected…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar Aug 28

Uber Can Actually Make It Easier For People To Ride Public Transit

Uber’s destruction of the taxi industry is obvious—and NYC cabs are finally fighting back. But how much of a threat is Uber to other modes of transportation? Earlier this week I worried that Uber’s plan to more easily scoop people off city streets might take ridership away from public transit. But a FiveThirtyEight investigation claims…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 28

If You Want Better Public Transit, You Probably Shouldn’t Use Uber

I’m writing this from a train. Without access to a car, I had to make a plan this morning for how to get to an interview: rent a car, ride a bike, take a train and a bus, use an on-demand ride service. I chose the train for a few reasons. But mostly because I…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 26

Tesla Is that Rarest of Things — A “High-End Disruptor”

Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has defied expectations and succeeded — despite having an expensive, experimental product that nobody was sure even had a market. How did it happen? One analyst says it’s all about destroying the car market from the top down. Over at Forbes, business professor Jeff Dyer has a fascinating, in-depth…

Space & Spaceflight Annalee Newitz Aug 19

New Robot Taxi Ad Highlights the Real Benefits of Driverless Cars

How To Fix A Flat Tire When You’re Stranded In The Middle Of Nowhere

Can One Day Without Cars Really Change Our Travel Habits?

110-Year-Old Electric Car Sells for $95,000

Elon Musk: Dieselgate Proves It’s Time to Go Electric

Inside the Engineering of the World’s First 1,000mph Car

All the awesome cars from Mad Max: Fury Road in one cool graphic

Apple CarPlay Review: Siri’s a Boring But Useful Travel Pal

Apple’s Electric Car Could Ship Within the Next Five Years

Honest trailer for Furious 7 proves that it was the perfect mix of silly and awesome

10,000 NYC Vehicles Are Going To Test the Government’s Connected Car Tech

Crazy man drives a car over a fiery ramp that jumps straight into a lake

My Afternoon With James Bond’s Amazing Spy Vehicles

AT&T’s New Gadget Will Put Wifi in Your Old Ass Car

Kylo Ren’s Hot Wheels Car Is Cooler Than his Spaceship

Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day

Uber Just Hired the Car Hackers That Stopped Chrysler In Its Tracks

Uber Can Actually Make It Easier For People To Ride Public Transit

If You Want Better Public Transit, You Probably Shouldn’t Use Uber

Tesla Is that Rarest of Things — A “High-End Disruptor”

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