A factory of Daihatsu Motor Co. is seen in its headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, western Japan Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Daihatsu has shut down production…
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NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research
An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond visual line of sight from observers on the ground required special…
NASA, Joby pave the way for air taxis in busy airports
Savvy Verma, left, and Huy Tran, director of aeronautics at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, center, explain a recent air traffic management simulation to guests at Ames’…
The safety dilemma of self-driving cars
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are revolutionizing how we move from one place to another. They’re also raising major safety and responsibility issues. In an article…
US rail to get much-needed facelift
Workers are seen at an Amtrak facility in New Castle County, Delaware in November 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars…
Interoperability is the name of the game in the future of traffic, says researcher
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An F-35 fighter plane has 8 million lines of code. A modern car, by comparison, has hundreds of millions of lines of code. The car is…
Researchers explore impacts of E-bikes on sustainable, equitable, efficient mobility
MEP scores for Denver are mapped for (a) drive and (b) e-bike modes. Each pixel is 1 km2. The highest e-bike MEP score across all locations was 178 while the highest…
BMW recalls SUVs after Takata air bag inflator blows apart, hurling shrapnel and injuring driver
This is the BMW logo on display at the 2020 Pittsburgh International Auto Show Thursday, Feb.13, 2020 in Pittsburgh. BMW is recalling a small number of SUVs in the U.S.,…
Tesla sues Swedish state over strike fallout
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Electric carmaker Tesla on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state over a strike by postal workers blocking deliveries of license plates for its new…
