Transportation Stories for 2017

Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail 294
How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter 141
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down 404
SoftBank Acquires Big Stake In Uber In a Major Victory For Both Companies 17
Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' 200
Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage 165
Tesla's Newest Holiday Update Includes an Easter Egg: 'Santa Mode' 90
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
China Is Building a Solar Power Highway 131
EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company 139
Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations 282
Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled 189
Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers 119
China Will Spend $3.3 Billion to Research Molten Salt Nuclear-Powered Drones 194
Inside Faraday Future's Financial House of Cards 44
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot 140
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Dedicated Chips For Autopilot 32
Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report 159
Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries 108
Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' 134
Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets 108
Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study 474
GM Says It Will Put Fleets of Self-Driving Cars In Cities In 2019 82
Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link 155
American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays 200
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations 141
Uber Trained Employees on How To 'Impede, Obstruct or Influence' Ongoing Legal Investigations, Ex-employee Says 62
Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology 111
Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study 80
Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? 266
Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 189
Singapore To Use Driverless Buses 'From 2022' 42
Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research 34
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
Uber Fined $8.9 Million In Colorado For Allowing Drivers With Felonies, Motor Violations To Work 108
Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos 176
DJI Threatens Researcher Who Reported Exposed Cert Key, Credentials, and Customer Data 81
Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks 179
Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars 99
Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips 111
Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 373
Virgin Hyperloop One Eyes India For Possible High-Speed Routes 38
China Builds World's Fastest Hypersonic Wind Tunnel To Simulate Flight At 27,000 MPH 63
Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early 215
Boeing 757 Testing Shows Airplanes Vulnerable To Hacking, DHS Says 140
Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit 300
Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares 86
US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests 182
Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules 125
Self-Driving Shuttle Involved In Crash Two Hours After Debut 204
NASA: We're Not Building Flying Taxi Software For Uber 24
NASA Is Working With Uber on Its Flying Taxi Project 51
Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars 176
Toyota Is Uneasy About the Handoff Between Automated Systems and Drivers 135
Uber Commits $5 Million To Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Prevention 78
Alphabet Loses Another Trade Secret Claim In Its Lawsuit Against Uber 10
Four Automakers Team Up To Create an Electric Car Charging Network Across Europe 62
Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit 481
BMW Recalling One Million Vehicles in North America 70
The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion 220
Government Won't Pursue Talking Car Mandate 109
Google Shuts Off Airline Booking Tool in Search 16
Entrepreneurial Space Age Began In 2009, Says Report 67
We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand 341
Colorado Taking Steps To Get Its Own Hyperloop 98
How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 133
Heathrow Airport Security Files Found on USB Stick In The Street 116
SpaceX Eyes 19 Launches In 2017 50
Alphabet's Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars In Snowy Detroit 61
Critical Flaws In Maritime Communications System Could Endanger Entire Ships 41
Chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Sees Fully Autonomous Cars Within 4 Years 77
Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds 239
Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 97
Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars 104
Amazon Patents Drones That Recharge Electric Vehicles 58
Elon Musk Begins Digging a Hyperloop Tunnel In Maryland 146
Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk 177
First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled 123
Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine 95
Alphabet Invests $1 Billion In Lyft 15
Consumer Reports Expects Tesla's Model 3 To Have 'Average Reliability' 63
Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies 152
CNN Gets a First-Of-Its-Kind Waiver To Fly Drones Over Crowds 60
Dubai Police Get Hoverbikes 118
Unpatched Exploit Lets You Clone Key Fobs and Open Subaru Cars 60
Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles 119
Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers 320
Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache 208
Alphabet's Waymo Demanded $1 Billion In Settlement Talks With Uber 11
Richard Branson's Virgin Group Invests in Super-fast Hyperloop One Transport System 60
Equifax Breach Included 10 Million US Driving Licenses 66
California DMV Changes Rules To Allow Testing and Use of Fully Autonomous Vehicles 120
Dutch Government Confirms Plan To Ban New Petrol, Diesel Cars By 2030 349
Nvidia Introduces a Computer For Level 5 Autonomous Cars 175
42 Solar-Powered Cars Race in 31st Annual 'Solar Challenge' Race 48
CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises' 206
GM Exec Says Elon Musk's Self-Driving Car Claims Are 'Full of Crap' 382
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service To Rival FedEx, UPS 88
Tesla Still On Top In US Electric Vehicle Sales, GM Close Behind 105
Boeing-Backed, Hybrid-Electric Commuter Plane To Hit Market In 2022 55
US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation 123
Fully Driverless Cars Could Be Months Away 160
Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City 154
Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals 244
General Motors Plans 20 All-Electric Cars By 2023 135
Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico 167
Russian Defense Company Demos A One-Person Flying Car 95
Bold Eagles: Angry Birds Are Ripping $80,000 Drones Out of the Sky 279
Russia Suspected In GPS-Spoofing Attacks On Ships 194
US Consumer Groups Warn 'Robot Car Bill' Threatens Safety 139
Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth 318
California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals 503
Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails 74
Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car 177
Dubai Starts Tests in Bid To Become First City With Flying Taxis 63
Tesla Model 3 Owners Share More Info On Model 177
Civilian Drone Crashes Into a US Army Helicopter 270
Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge 179
Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online 33
London Has Decided To Ban Uber 224
Tesla Discontinues Its Most Affordable Model S 95
Tesla Is Working With AMD To Develop Its Own AI Chip For Self-Driving Cars 50
How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body 264
Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? 251
Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip On a Single Charge 156
Diesel Cars Contribute To 5,000 Premature Deaths a Year In Europe, Says Study 215
Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? 736
Hyperloop One Reveals 10 Strongest Potential Hyperloop Routes In the World 142
Japan Trials Driverless Cars In Bid To Keep Rural Elderly On the Move 59
Samsung Unveils New Electric Car Batteries For Up To 430 Miles of Range 90
Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving 84
'Operational Limitations' In Tesla Model S Played a 'Major Role' In Autopilot Crash, Says NTSB 210
Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 168
California Bans Drones From Delivering Marijuana 82
China Joins the Growing Movement To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars 126
Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma 328
Uber Gives Free Rides to Shelters During Hurricane Irma 38
An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid 143
China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations 103
India Aims To Put One Million Electric Vehicles On the Road By Mid-2019 76
Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft 13
Spinning Metal Sails Could Slash Fuel Consumption, Emissions On Cargo Ships 170
Google's Street View Cars Are Now Giant, Mobile 3D Scanners 42
India Just Might Be Getting a Hyperloop 149
House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars 176
Dozens Of Drones Surveil Houston For Damage After Hurricane Harvey 34
US Cops Can't Keep License Plate Data Scans Secret Without Reason, Court Rules 60
New Qualcomm Auto Chipset Advances Vehicle-To-Everything Communications 24
Samsung Gets Self-Driving Car Permit In California 18
Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future, New Study Says 240
Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla 264
China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop 159
Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee 420
Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car 145
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Will Be Offered the Job as Uber's New CEO 60
201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition 212
East Africa Leads The World In Drone Delivery 59
A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK 90
Waymo Built a Fake City In California To Test Self-Driving Cars 38
VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case 133
Software Is Eating the Auto Industry 101
Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge 322
Elon Musk Rolled Out Autopilot Despite Engineers' Safety Concerns, Says Report 195
Many People Still Don't Want To Ride in Self-driving Cars, Survey Finds 222
Apple Puts Brakes on Self-driving Car Project, Report Says 78
German Company Building An Electric 'Air Taxi' Makes Key Hires From Gett, Airbus and Tesla 74
Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks 397
Austria, Carmakers Agree To Update Software of 600,000 Diesel Cars 12
China Relaunches World's Fastest Train 118
Driverless Cars Need a Lot More Than Software, Ford CTO Says 163
FBI Accepts New Evidence in 46-Year-Old D.B. Cooper Case 123
Hacker Helps Family Recover Minivan After Losing One-Of-A-Kind Car Key 169
Atlas 5 Rocket Launches $400 Million NASA Satellite Into Space 51
Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car 177
Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button 96
How Hackers Are Targeting the Shipping Industry 48
Unpatchable 'Flaw' Affects Most of Today's Modern Cars 226
New MH370 Analysis Again Suggests Plane Came Down Outside Search Area 88
Toyota Patents Cloaking Device To Make Car Pillars Appear Transparent 105
US Army Walks Back Decision To Ban DJI Drones Ever So Slightly 27
SpaceX Successfully Launches, Recovers Falcon 9 For CRS-12 71
Uber Investors Slam Travis Kalanick In Open Letter To Employees 20
Amateur Drone Lands On British Air Carrier, Wired Reviews Anti-Drone Technology 152
Uber and Lyft May Cause Lower Car Ownership In Big Cities, Says Report 118
NASA Looks At Reviving Atomic Rocket Program 122
MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles 104
Uber Shareholder Group Wants Benchmark Off Board 31
China Working On 'Repression Network' Which Lets Cameras Identify Cars With Unprecedented Accuracy 80
Tesla Looking To Start Testing Autonomous Semi In 'Platoon' Formation 63
VC Firm Benchmark Capital, An Early Investor In Uber, Sues Travis Kalanick For Fraud 21
A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It 50
Cyber Threats Prompt Return of Radio For Ship Navigation 133
You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs 272
Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology 271
Nissan Won't Build Its Own Electric Car Batteries Anymore 132
Tesla Seeks $1.5 Billion Junk Bonds Issue To Fund Model 3 Production 159
Pilotless Planes Could Save Airlines $35 Billion Per Year, But Passengers Aren't Willing To Fly In Them Yet 313
Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? 270
London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down 174
The No-GPS Road Trip 276
A US Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days 232
'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' 304
Volkswagen Executive Faces Jail Time After Guilty Plea 135
Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser 296
Elon Musk Inspired an Industry of Hyperloop Startups. Now He's Building His Own 153
Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars To Drivers, Says Report 35
Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test 249
Uber Drivers Gang Up To Cause Surge Pricing, Research Says 164
Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 356
Travis Kalanick To Uber CEO Candidates: I'm 'Steve Jobsing' It And Will Return 124
Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban 170
After Emissions Scandal, Volkswagen Pledges Charging Stations Across The US 142
Will 'Smart Cities' Violate Our Privacy? 108
Tesla Model 3 Test Drive: Car Has Bite and Simple Interior 192
Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says 151
New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK 417
Toyota's New Solid-State Battery Could Make Its Way To Cars By 2020 69
India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs 142
NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half 234
People Are Complaining That Their New DJI Drones Are Falling Out of the Sky 90
German Automakers Formed a Secret Cartel In the '90s To Collude On Diesel Emissions, Says Report 195
Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? 203
United Airlines Claims TSA Banned Comic Books In Checked Luggage For Comic-Con, TSA Denies It 107
Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens 241
Uber Takes Inspiration From Its Indian Rival, Plans To Introduce an Infotainment System in Its Cars In the Country 20
UK To Require Drone Registration And Safety Exams 97
Lyft Launches a New Self-driving Division and Will Develop Its Own Autonomous Ride-hailing Technology 56
Swedish Rail Firm Approves Trainy McTrainface As Name Following Online Poll 88
Elon Musk Says He Has a Green Light To Build a NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop 308
US Ends Controversial Laptop Ban On Flights From Middle East 79
US House Panel Approves Broad Proposal On Self-Driving Cars 191
Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 100
Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation 708
Comcast Says Should Be Able To Create Internet Fast Lanes For Self-Driving Cars 121
Man Blames Tesla Autopilot System For Rollover Crash, Then Recants 126
Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search? 146
Amazon Prime Is a Blessing and a Curse For Remote Towns 314
Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas 304
Private Company Plans To Bring Moon Rocks Back To Earth In Three Years 66
The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy 375
Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH 235
Amazon Prime Will Soon Be More Popular Than Cable TV 116
Tesla Sales in Hong Kong Dry Up After Gov't Drops Tax Break 103
State Prison Officials Blame An Escape On Drones And Cellphones 223
Could Technology Companies Solve Traffic Congestion? 151
Waymo Drops All But One Patent Claim Against Uber 21
Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis 146
Elderly Drivers In Japan Could Be Limited To Vehicles With Automatic Braking 148

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