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Japan offers to lend US half the cost of 'Super Maglev' train
The Japanese government has promised to lend the United States half of the cost of building the first "Super-Maglev" train, reducing travel time between Baltimore and Washington DC to just 15 minutes. Tokyo is so keen to show off its technology that it will provide loans for half the estimated $8 billion (£5bn) cost of installing the tracks, Japan's Asahi newspaper said on Tuesday.
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Kelly Became Top Christie Aide After Decade in Local Politics
Bridget Anne Kelly, the aide to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who was fired today after ordering traffic congestion in a city whose mayor didn’t endorse her boss, rose to work the state’s top office after more than 10 years in local politics.
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Readers' tales of extreme commuting
For many people commuting is a modern-day necessary evil. But for some, a six-hour journey is time well spent.
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Why Uber can’t be stopped
Disgruntled cabbies slash tires, break windows and teach a capitalist lesson: The workers always get screwed...
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The Science Is Clear: Don't Text and Walk
Being distracted by texting makes people walk more slowly and crookedly, and they are more likely to be hit by cars
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Google patents ad-powered taxi service that would offer free rides to shoppers
To those who say that self-driving cars have nothing to do with Google's core business selling ads, listen up: Google was just awarded a patent for an ad-powered taxi service. The patent, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, would allow advertisers to offer potential customers a free ride to their place of business. This would solve one of the biggest problems for brick-and-mortar retailers: getting customers to their location.
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Get ready for a shock: The world's fastest supercar might soon be electric
At full speed, the Rimac Concept_One is little more than a cherry red blur, flashing from one corner of the horizon to the other in the blink of an eye.
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The Biggest Hurdle for Self-Driving Cars: Congress
Engineers are meeting the technical challenges needed to turn today's cars into the stuff of science fiction, but lawmakers are making little progress in updating the rules.
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Woman dies as escalator catches her scarf on Montreal Metro
A commuter has died after her scarf got snagged in an escalator at a Montreal Metro station and strangled her. The unidentified 48-year-old woman was found dead at the bottom of the moving staircase at Fabre station in the north of the Canadian city. Her hair was also apparently caught in the escalator in Thursday morning's incident.
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Five of India's most popular small cars have failed crash tests
The tests by Global NCAP showed that if involved in a crash, fatalities or serious injuries could result. Among the cars tested was India's talismanic Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, as well as models made in India by Ford, Volkswagen and Hyundai.
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Renault concept car launches drone to check for gridlock ahead
Renault has dreamed up a concept car that would include a "flying companion" in the form of a quadrocopter. The tiny drone would launch from a special compartment in the car's roof. Should the concept every become reality, the drone could be controlled manually via a tablet or be set to fly autonomously to pre-determined GPS waypoints, presumably matching your driving speed.
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What happened when Boloco founder John Pepper became an Uber driver
Last October, Boloco co-founder and CEO John Pepper resigned his job after a tussle with directors about the restaurant chain's direction. In that situation, lots of other entrepreneurs might take time off to travel, or become an..
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The mystery of motion sickness
Although one third of the population suffers from motion sickness, scientists aren't exactly sure what causes it. Like the common cold, it's a seemingly simple problem that's still without a cure. And if you think it's bad on a long family car ride, imagine being a motion sick astronaut! Rose Eveleth explains what's happening in our bodies when we get the car sick blues.
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Cabbies who kill or maim in NYC keep licenses, return to work
The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel. Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009 examined by The Post, only two of the drivers had their licenses revoked, according to a review based on a Freedom of Information Act request.
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A World Without Car Crashes
Connected vehicles — the so-called "internet of cars" — could be the biggest transportation advance since the car itself.
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Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
The idea of being fined for crossing the road at the wrong place can bemuse foreign visitors to the US, where the origins of so-called jaywalking lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the 1920s.
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Uber and Its Enemies
How taxi cartels resort to desperate measures to kill innovation and save their crumbling industry.
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Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas as a Fuel for Vehicles
The sign is ubiquitous on city buses around the country: “This bus runs on clean burning natural gas.” But a surprising new report, to be published Friday in the journal Science, concludes that switching buses and trucks from traditional diesel fuel to natural gas could actually harm the planet’s climate.
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Metrolink becomes first railroad to roll out Positive Train Control
The Metrolink passenger railroad Thursday will become the first commuter service in the nation to roll out a sophisticated collision avoidance system designed to overcome human error.
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Ship loses more than 500 containers in heavy seas
On any day, between 5 million and 6 million containers are on the high seas, carrying everything from potato chips to refrigerators. But not all of them make it to their destination, as the crew of the Svendborg Maersk have just found out. Their Danish-flagged ship was in the Bay of Biscay last week as hurricane-force winds battered the Atlantic coast of Europe. Amid waves of 30 feet and winds of 60 knots, the Svendborg began losing containers off northern France.
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