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The likes of Tesla’s autopilot technology isn’t meant for you to take your eyes off the road – there could be fatal consequences if you do.
BLOODHOUND SSC during construction at the Bloodhound Technical Centre, Avonmouth, summer 2015.
Preparing BLOODHOUND to break the world land speed record … and how you can take part.
A target shooting instructor and student.
REUTERS/Jim Young
As automobile technology advanced, so did our safety measures. UC Denver and MIT sociologists explain how to do the same with guns.
Rolls-Royce Motor Company
The Vision Next 100 concept car promises 22nd century luxury but is more likely to become an amusing curiosity – just like its predecessors.
Humans are still better than machines at driving in extreme weather conditions, for now.
Flickr/Terence Lim
Driverless cars are the technology of the future, but unless they learn how to drive in rain and snow, they will be a technology that lets us down when we need it the most.
Top Gear back on track?
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The BBC hopes that keeping much of the Top Gear recipe will appeal to viewers’ tastes.
Airlines have saved energy by changing flight routes and modifying wings for better fuel use.
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Companies could improve their profits 2-10% each year by saving energy, according to a world-first attempt to assess energy performance.
By the time people reach their mid-20s, they are just as likely to have a licence now as their counterparts were ten years ago.
AAP/Dave Hunt
There are many important reasons why transport planners and policymakers should encourage and support this delay in car dependence.
Tesla
Elon Musk hasn’t made a cheap electric car, but one that’s attractive enough to create a mass market.
Shockwaves. Momentum is with electric cars.
Sergio Monsalve
The vacuum cleaner maker faces the same challenges as Elon Musk against the big auto players – so maybe it’s time to try a different road.
The launch of a Tesla Model 3 sedan, aimed at the mass market.
Reuters/Joe White
Tesla’s new Model 3 may be the kick the electric car industry needs to expand, with pre-orders exceeding expectations.
In the battle for the road, bike riders come off second best.
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New South Wales’ new tougher bike laws reveal an ongoing war of the roads.
The race is on …
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TVR has joined the bid for factory space in south Wales.
Motorists in New South Wales must now keep a minimum distance of one metre when passing cyclists.
AAP/Richard Milnes
Cyclists have voiced their opposition to some aspects of the Go Together package to ensure their safety on NSW roads.
Google
Self-driving cars are way more energy efficient than your average vehicle – but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll reduce carbon emissions.
The DBX could herald a new future for Aston Martin.
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The rolling hills of south Wales are proving to be the perfect place for green car manufacturers.
Only the beginning: already there are cars that can take over steering on highways. How will things change once driverless cars arrive?
Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
A thought experiment: how will people view mobility and personal vehicles once we have electric, autonomous vehicles in the future?
Back to basics in the home of the fuel cell.
Riversimple
Will the Rasa be a clean slate for the advancement of fuel cell cars?
A White House proposal to tax crude oil would address the U.S.’s perennially underfunded highway maintenance program.
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Obama’s proposal to add $10 tax to crude oil raises the thorny question of whether the U.S. can continue to fund its highway infrastructure with a fuel tax that hasn’t changed since 1993.
A concept-only supercar, perhaps, but one that could shake up the status quo.
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Will China end up eating the lunch of the current crop of global car manufacturers?