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The crashes that changed plane designs forever
The tragedies that were part of a long and fraught process that has helped make flying as safe as it is today.
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Toyota shows off fuel cell car that can also power a home
Toyota Motor Corp. released new details on its fuel cell car Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - including plans for an adapter allowing the car to power your home.
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The road design tricks that make us drive safer
Why designers are coming up with increasingly clever ways to subconsciously make drivers slow down or pay attention.
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Japan Company To Give Maglev Tech To U.S. For Free
The Japanese rail operator JR Tokai said it would not charge the US to license its proprietary "maglev" technology, which allows trains to hover about 4 inches (10 centimeters) above tracks and travel at speeds of 310 mph (500 kph), according to Nikkei. It is hoping the US will use its train for a proposed high-speed rail line between Washington D.C. and Baltimore.
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Will nuclear-powered spaceships take us to the stars?
In the 1950s, rocket scientists dreamed of atomic-powered spaceships. Now these far-fetched designs might help a new generation explore the cosmos.
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South Korea Ferry Probe: Cargo Was Three Times Recommended Maximum
Prosecutors expanded their investigation into the owner of the sunken South Korean passenger ferry on Wednesday as inspectors confirmed the cargo weight declared by the ship on its final voyage was three times the recommended maximum. Officials from Chonghaejin Marine Co., the operator of the ferry, were banned from leaving the country as investigators raided the offices of the company, its affiliates, the residence of the firm's owner, as well as other companies he owns.
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Tesla driver completes epic all-electric cross-country journey
When Norman Hajjar rides around the country, he rides around the country. The long distance driver has just finished an epic 24-day, 12,000-mile national tour, driving a stock Tesla S model electric automobile.
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The secret time-saving trick hidden inside every New York City taxicab
Next time you’re riding in a New York City taxicab, try this hack: Even before reaching your destination, you can tap the fare on the television screen and swipe your credit card ahead of time. No need to conduct the transaction if you’re in a rush at the end of the ride.
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Flight Delayed? Your Pilot Really Can Make Up the Time in the Air
You’re sitting on a flight, in a long queue of airplanes, waiting to take off. You were supposed to have left 30 minutes ago. The pilot comes on the loudspeaker to say your plane is next in line for takeoff, and tells you not to worry, because the plane can make up the lost time in the air.
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Undercover Police Are Targeting Uber And Lyft Drivers To
Undercover police operations have been systematically targeting Uber and Lyft drivers by issuing citations totaling thousands of dollars in places like Madison and Pittsburgh. In Madison, a police sting operation from the weekend resulted in $1,300 in fines for drivers of both e-hailing companies.
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How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other
The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these companies have us engaging in behaviors that would have seemed unthinkably foolhardy as recently as five years ago.
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Biker halts traffic looking for false teeth on Madrid’s busiest highway
It was a ‘tooth’ issue that brought traffic at a standstill on one of the Madrid’s busiest highways. A motorcyclist stopped mid-way at the capital’s M-30 highway, keeping the traffic waiting, to look for his false teeth which flew out of his mouth when he sneezed.
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Crunching the Numbers to Find the Best Airfare
You may have heard that the best day to buy an airline ticket is a Tuesday. Other things you may have heard: Polaroid cameras now let you see photographs shortly after you take them, and bloodletting is no longer an accepted cure for fever.
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What Running Out of Power in a Tesla on the Side of a Highway Taught Me About the Road Trip of Tomorrow
It's 209 miles from the parking lot of a Chili's in Barstow, California, where we are, to the parking lot of a Carl's Jr. in Kingman, Arizona, where we need to go. I'm in a rented Tesla Model S, a sleek, battery-powered electric vehicle, with a travel companion. We're just about fully charged, and the car estimates it can travel 247 miles before we need more juice. That's a buffer of 38 miles, which should be more than enough to reach Kingman. We'll soon realize it isn't.
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Who Is at Fault When a Driverless Car Gets in an Accident?
These are boom times for driverless car research. Google, the major automakers, and government agencies both in the U.S. and abroad are spending millions of dollars to support the development of vehicle-automation technology with the potential to make road travel far safer than it is today. But what will happen when automation is suspected of causing, as opposed to avoiding, an accident?
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Distracted Driving: All Lip Service With No Legit Tech Solution
April is the national commemorative month for all kinds of things, including poetry, welding and soy foods. But it’s also National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Unfortunately, the recognition of this month for distracted driving is a hallow gesture—just like the half-hearted attempts at developing apps that prevent cell phone use while driving.
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This Guy Used a Cellphone Jammer in His Car so He Could Have a Peaceful Commute
When you see another driver texting, it may make you nervous. You're trying to drive safely, while this jerk is recklessly blasting out emoticons. One Florida man was so fed up that he decided to make a no-phones policy mandatory for the people driving around him during his commute. He got a jammer and shut their cellphone use down.
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Listen to the fake sounds that could keep electric vehicles from hitting people
The roar of internal combustion engines is a familiar sound to anyone living in a large city, but whisper-quiet electric vehicles (EVs) pose a different problem—they provide almost no audible warning for pedestrians and cyclists. Regulators are considering rules that will require EVs to make more noise, but so far there is no consensus for what kind of sound an EV should make.
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The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility vehicle (SUV), or it could swerve to the right and hit a Mini Cooper. If you were programming the car to minimize harm to others--a sensible goal--which way would you instruct it go in this scenario?
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Chinese experts 'in discussions' over building high-speed Beijing-US railway
China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the US, the country's official media reported on Thursday. The proposed line would begin in north-east China and run up through Siberia, pass through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean then cut through Alaska and Canada to reach the continental US, according to a report in the state-run Beijing Times newspaper.
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