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Boeing’s Battery Problems Just Won’t Go Away
A Japan Airlines 787 Dreamliner remains grounded at the Narita airport in Tokyo a day after white smoke was seen billowing out of a battery compartment. And Boeing has confirmed that one of the...
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The LA Road That Tricks Bad Motorcyclists Into Crashing
The Snake is pure motoring perfection. A two-mile stretch of heaven that ends with what could be the most crashed corner in Southern California.
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Feds Will Require All New Vehicles to Talk to Each Other
The future of automotive safety isn't about more airbags or stronger steel. It's about building smarter automobiles that talk to each other, so your car knows that other car is about to run a red light...
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Trolley-Train Hybrid Tackles City Streets, Then Speeds to Suburbs
The city of Sheffield, U.K. is installing the country's first tram-train, a public transit hybrid that can serve both the suburbs and a city's urban core thanks to a special wheel design that can...
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New Polymer Could End Battery Fires, Quadruple Efficiency
Whether it's a Tesla fire or an overheating laptop, batteries' volatility has been an obstacle for alternative energy transportation. Applying this polymer might solve that problem and reveal the true...
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Magical, Retractable Tire Studs Only Deploy When You Need Them
A Finnish tire manufacturer has create a concept tire that can engage metal pins on icy roads, then retract them when back on asphalt.
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Do We Really Need a New Rearview Mirror? Nissan Thinks So
At the flick of a switch, this mirror goes from shiny glass to an LCD display that gives drivers an unobstructed view behind the car.
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A Truck Tire That Self-Inflates When Its Pressure Drops
The Aperia Halo uses an interior pendulum to create energy to ensure tractor-trailer tires are properly inflated.
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America’s Trains Are Finally Getting Automated Safety Systems
Southern California's Metrolink has become the first commuter rail system in the country to implement a new automatic safety system.
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How It’s Possible to Lose an Airplane in 2014
In an era when we've all got GPS in our pockets, OnStar can find a stolen car and the NSA can track anyone, anywhere, it is still possible--although rare--for an airliner to seemingly vanish. That...
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