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Hackers could gridlock whole cities by stalling out a limited percentage of self-driving and other connected vehicles.
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How the Volkswagen Beetle sparked America’s art car movement
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Originally created in...
Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies
Flying faster than the speed of sound still sounds futuristic for regular people, more than 15 years after the last commercial supersonic flights ended....
Ride-hailing services may be driving up traffic deaths
A Chicago Booth study finds motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents increased about 3 percent with arrival of ride-hailing services.
While the era of app-based...
New cars are safer, but women most likely to suffer injury, says study
Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older models, including in the most common types of crashes -...
Scientists find new way to expand the temperature range of lithium-ion batteries
Electric cars struggle with extreme temperatures, mainly because of impacts on the electrolyte solutions in their lithium-ion batteries.
Now, researchers have developed new electrolytes containing...
How many taxis can scan a city?
Fewer than you would think!
Just 10 taxis equipped with mobile sensors can survey a third of Manhattan’s streets in a day.
The inexpensively collected valuable...
Do you know how to get out of a sinking car
Do you know how to get out of a sinking car?
The correct answer is SWOC .
In a new study, researchers found that this is...
Somebody’s watching you when you take self-driving cars
Picture the future, where driving is a thing of the past.
You can hop in your car or one from a ride-share, buckle up and...
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