Transportation Stories for 2008

Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax 713
New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly 122
Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? 897
Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone 46
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor 603
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
VASIMR Plasma Thruster To Be Tested Aboard ISS 81
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel 276
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo 98
Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft 78
TAAS Company Presents New Orbital Space Plane 80
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network 255
Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers 439
Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities 213
Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? 752
SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures 30
FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System 138
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388
New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps 330
Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters 125
MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft 176
London's Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers 143
Pentagon Clears Flying-Car Project For Takeoff 90
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada 541
The World's Heaviest Robot 142
Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car 324
Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial 173
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters 119
Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's 129
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona 59
Armadillo Aerospace Takes Level 1 Lunar Lander Prize 50
Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet 356
1000-mph Car Planned 380
Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid 260
Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars 146
Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan 425
Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property 393
Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons 303
"Roadable Aircraft" Moving Towards Launch 186
TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property 655
Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies 296
Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off 491
Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators 155
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap 389
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving 452
People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars 473
Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? 1114
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight 38
Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks 179
Aquaduct Bike Purifies Water As You Pedal 60
Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents 773
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle 121
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents 1224
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here 495
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project 97
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car 93
Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says 519
Fossett's Plane Found 356
Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamers 207
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit 518
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System 176
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674
Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually 10
Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing 175
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator 696
Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel 260
Human-Powered Vehicle Speed Competition 102
Plane Simple Truth 460
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US 563
Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US 1103
Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code 270
Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering 180
World Human Powered Boat Record Broken 30
Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? 520
DIY Hybrid Car Kit 309
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change 692
Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius 638
Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn 90
China Sets Sights On Rail Record 360
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable 354
Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring 254
Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record 134
Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson 113
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test 163
Wind-Powered "Greenbird" Seeks Land-Speed Record 38
Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting 320
NASA Installing Shocks On Ares 293
Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair 338
Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs 779
EU Reserves a Frequency For Talking Cars 220
NASA Spends $25M On Unmanned Planes, Awards Aviation Prizes 49
Air Traffic Controller Lands Stricken Plane By SMS 177
Massachusetts Sues to Halt Defcon Subway Hacking Talk 270
NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive 266
Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete 295
TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags 571
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO 379
Toyota Announces the Winglet, Wannabe Segway Killer 227
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions 580
In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress 404
Practical Jetpack Available "Soon" 237
Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car 378
Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet 394
Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors 110
Michigan Wins 2008 North American Solar Challenge 37
GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids 582
Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time 246
GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers 362
Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC 203
GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court 702
Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies 210
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada 144
Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars 520
Smart Parking Spaces In San Francisco 202
Boeing-Skyhook Airship Faces Technical Challenges 185
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 908
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers 673
New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo 195
Google Creates Tour de France Video Maps 78
VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG 507
12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports 236
Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel 517
NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift 487
Chrysler To Offer Wireless Internet In 2009 Models 258
Terminal Chaos 511
Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar 146
Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers 1065
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars 736
NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA 116
SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels 725
BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric 347
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids 1320
The SUV Is Dethroned 1234
Latest "Green" Power Generation — Your Feet 189
Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train 402
Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports 454
International Field Engineer Travel Tips? 85
Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime 359
Buses as Mobile Sensing Platforms? 52
Wearable Motorcycle Design 234
Big Rigs Go High Tech 288
Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading 275
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices 1083
Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel 273
Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing 247
Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism 233
Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways 186
Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing 122
Zeppelins Over California 201
Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed 418
It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane 243
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) 74
Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store 442
Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize 309
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End 365
JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners 235
Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia 491
Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War 79
Bird Navigation Based On Quantum Zeno Effect 96
Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX 221
Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic 296
Rocket Racing League Ready To Launch 79
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again 214
MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams 243
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes 300
New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone 404
Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars 203
Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor 104
Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes 217
New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced 371
100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback 385
FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade 277
TSA Evaluating Laptop Bags 95
Underground Freight Networks 284
MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries 191
Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster 880
VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid 179
Wave Powered Boat to Sail From Hawaii to Japan 152
Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline 442
Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet 430
100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year 449
Airport Security Prize Announced 381
Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? 203
Li-Ion Batteries Hit Final R&D Phase for Plug-in Cars 238
Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner 221
Cellphones to Monitor Highway Traffic 119
Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay 189
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set 380
$2500 Tata Nano Car Unveiled in India 625
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks 517
GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 646
Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets 490
The Age of the Airship Returns? 315
Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack 332
Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions 676
NASA Releases Cryptic Airline Safety Data 148