Transportation Stories for 2021

Hyundai Shuts Down Its Engine Development Team Amid Focus On Electric Cars 215
Baidu's Jidu Auto To Mass Produce Its 'Robot' Electric Vehicles in 2023 43
Concerns About Big Tech's Next Potential Monopoly: Connected Cars 102
Nearly 5,000 Flights Canceled Globally As Omicron Infects Airline Employees 153
The US Car Rental Market is Crying Out for Disruption 117
Toyota 'Reviewing' Key Fob Remote Start Subscription Plan After Massive Blowback 154
EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement 41
Philadelphia Woman Gives Birth in Front Seat of Tesla on Autopilot 80
Amazon Driver Was Warned She'd Be Fired For Returning With Packages During a Tornado 179
Boeing Wants To Build Its Next Airplane in the 'Metaverse' 81
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
Biometrics Company Clear Is Bringing Its Airport Scanners To Retail Stores 30
Toyota is Going To Make You Pay To Start Your Car With Your Key Fob 272
Volvo Discloses Security Breach Leading To Data Theft 14
Citing Fires, London's Transport Agency Bans E-scooters on Public Transit Network 47
Mercedes Beats Tesla To Hands-Free Driving On the Autobahn 161
Eurostar Tests Facial Recognition System On London Train Station 24
Musk Says Tesla's Cybertruck Will Have Four-motor Variant 105
Tesla is Now Selling a $1,900 Electric Cyberquad ATV for Kids 66
Apple Loses Key Autos Engineer To Electric Aviation Startup Archer 20
Airbus A340 Plane Lands On Antarctica For First Time 92
South Korea Will Use VR To Determine If the Elderly Can Keep Driving 30
Nissan Lays Out $17.6 Billion Plan To Electrify Its Future 101
California Port Truckers 'Drowning' in Supply Chain Inefficiencies 96
Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Airplane Reached a Record 387.4 MPH Top Speed 82
Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars To Tax 290
FAA Memo Reveals More New Boeing 787 Manufacturing Defects 77
Can We Fight Carbon Emissions With Roundabout Intersections? 303
First Electric Autonomous Cargo Ship Launched In Norway 72
Ford Plans To Produce 600,000 EVs a Year By the End of 2023 117
Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle 71
Lucid Air Named MotorTrend Car of the Year 143
Air Cargo Is Suddenly Affordable Relative To Ocean Shipping 119
Hydrogen and Hybrids: Toyota CEO Defends Combustion Engines, Saying 'The Enemy Is Carbon' 265
Can We Use Big Batteries to Power Our Trains? 238
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
South Korea Tests System for Controlling Air Taxis 27
Rivian Goes Public In One of the Biggest IPOs Ever 37
Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous 138
Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People 84
China Says a Foreign Spy Agency Hacked Its Airlines, Stole Passenger Records 20
America's FAA Issues Warning Over Concerns 5G Might Interfere with Aviation Altimeters 79
Will Self-Driving Cars Be Able to Handle... Bears? 88
Waymo Will Start Operating In NYC 18
Ford's New Custom Electric Pickup Truck Is a Blast From the Past 182
US Charging Infrastructure Is Outpacing Forecasts, Study Finds 75
Why Hyundai Is the One To Watch In the Race For EVs 200
Tesla Is Letting Non-Tesla EVs Use Its Supercharger Network For the First Time 66
You Can Now Remotely Access Your Tesla's Camera - and Talk to People 41
Toyota Unveils Its First All-Electric Car 103
Tesla Surpasses $1 Trillion Market Cap 118
Xpeng Unveils a Flying Car That Also Drives on Roads - Plus a Bionic Horse 65
Indianapolis Motor Speedway To Host Autonomous Car Race On Saturday 51
Elon Musk's Boring Company Gets Green Light For Las Vegas Tunnel System 95
Radiant Aims To Replace Diesel Generators With Small Nuclear Reactors 266
New Study Finds Ridesharing Actually Increases Pollution, Congestion 187
5G Lobbyist Argues It May Be a Long Time Before Autonomous Vehicles Reach Cities 20
Drones Have Now Been Used To Deliver Lungs For Medical Transplant 22
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes' 117
Boeing Finds New Defect in Ongoing Struggle To Produce Dreamliner 787 35
Germany Unveils First Self-Driving Train 60
With Fewer Chips, Automakers Are Prioritizing High-Markup Vehicles, Offering Fewer Deals 62
US Flight Traffic Controllers Complain Military Tests Interfered with GPS Signals 52
Car Thieves Arrested After Using $27,000 Game Boy Device 104
Why Chip-Constrained Carmakers Can't Just Transition To Newer Chips 256
Chip Shortage Makes GM Scrap Its Hands-Free Highway Driving Feature 72
California DMV Gives Cruise and Waymo OK To Charge For Rides 24
Chip Shortage Leads Carmaker Opel To Shut German Plant Until 2022 61
The First Reviews of Rivian's R1T Electric Pickup 118
Rolls-Royce Plans To Stop Making Gas-Powered Cars By 2030 76
UK Electric Car Inquiries Soar During Fuel Supply Crisis 210
Ford Recalls Mustang Mach-Es Over Risk of Glass Roof Flying Off 52
California Makes Zero-emission Autonomous Vehicles Mandatory by 2030 138
The Imaginary Rocket Driving a Small-Town Spaceport 45
FedEx Uses Autonomous Trucks For First Time On Delivery Route 59
Report: Boeing Official Expected to Face Criminal Charges Over Fatal Boeing 737 Max Issues 99
GM Tells Bolt Owners to Park 50 Feet Away From Other Cars 138
Tesla Will Open Controversial FSD Beta Software To Owners With a Good Driving Record 61
Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Aircraft Completes 15-Minute Maiden Voyage 55
Lucid Air Electric Sedan Zips By Tesla With EPA-Rated 520-Mile Range 163
New Tolling Systems Are Poised To Hit Highways 324
Walmart To Begin Driverless Deliveries With Ford and Argo AI 26
Michelin's Airless Passenger Car Tires Get Their First Public Outing 159
New York To Ban Sale of All Gas-Powered Vehicles In the State By 2035 298
Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors, Says Dutch Court 65
Boeing's Directors Are Now Facing an Investor Lawsuit Over Fatal 737 Max Crashes 62
Apple's Watch Software Chief Takes Over Self-Driving Car Project 22
Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple's Car Project 53
Toyota To Spend $13.5 Billion To Develop EV Battery Tech and Supply By 2030 133
Led by Tesla, EVs Drive Chip Industry's Shift Beyond Silicon 67
Ethiopian Airlines Settles With Boeing, Expects Resumed 737 Max Flights in January 40
City of Beijing Said To Seek Taking Didi Under State Control 62
GM Suspends Production At North American Plants Amid Ongoing Chip Shortages 84
VanMoof Raises $128 Million To Become 'Most Funded e-Bike Company In the World' 24
Car Owners' New Gripe: Lousy Wireless Service 84
GM Temporarily Stops Making the Chevy Bolt After Latest Recall 68
An Olympics Sponsors' Self-Driving Bus Hit a Paralympic Athelete 96
Waymo Will Stop Selling Its Self-Driving LiDAR Sensors To Other Companies 9
Alphabet's Drones Delivered 10,000 Cups of Coffee, 1,200 Roast Chickens In the Last Year 30
Smoking Smartphone Sparks Emergency Evacuation of Alaska Airlines Jet, Two Taken To Hospital 113
World's First Crewless, Zero Emissions Cargo Ship Will Set Sail In Norway 107
Misaligned Factory Robot May Have Sparked Chevy Bolt Battery Fires 42
Older Tesla Vehicles To Get UI Performance Boost Thanks To Famed Video Game Engineer 86
Waymo Starts Offering Autonomous Rides In San Francisco 26
Bosch Says the Semiconductor Supply Chains In the Car Industry No Longer Work 118
GM Recalls 73,000 More of Its Chevy 'Bolt' Electric Cars Over Fire Risk 97
High-Speed Rail Proponents Make Another Push For Pacific Northwest Project 179
Toyota To Cut Global Production By 40% Due To Global Microchip Shortage 73
Audi Unveils a Shape-Shifting Concept Car 79
Lamborghini Introduces Rare Hybrid-Electric Countach Sportscar 69
Sportscar Manufacturer Debuts World's First All-Electric High-Performance Hypercar 99
No EV Tax Credit If You Earn More Than $100,000 Says US Senate 202
Self-Driving Car Startup Wants to Spare AI From Making Life-or-Death Decisions 134
Edmunds Reviews Ford's BlueCruise Hands-Free Driving Technology 52
Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government To Track Drivers' Travel Data 238
Biden Wants Half of New Cars Sold in 2030 To Be Hybrid or All-Electric 293
The Slow Collapse of Amazon's Drone Delivery Dream 108
What if Highways Were Electric? Germany Is Testing the Idea. 185
Proposed Federal Standard Would Require Cars To 'Prevent or Limit Operation' By Impaired Drivers 185
In the US, Life Cycle Emissions For EVs Are Already 60-68% Lower Than Gasoline, Study Finds 288
A Pilot Reported Another 'Possible Jet Pack Man' Near Los Angeles 77
UK Government Backs Scheme For Motorway Cables To Power Lorries 124
Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works To Delay Them. 304
Parking Startups Are Cashing In On America's Traffic Surge 14
Mercedes-Benz To Go All-Electric By 2030 94
Intel's Mobileye Begins Testing Autonomous Vehicles In New York City 32
China Unveils 'Fastest Ground Vehicle In the World' 146
Boeing Slows 'Dreamliner' Production After New Manufacturing Issue 38
General Motors Tells Chevy Bolt Owners To Park Outside Because Batteries Could Catch Fire 157
United and Mesa To Buy Electric Planes For Short Trips 42
$350 Million 'Palace On Rails' Luxury Train Concept Unveiled 164
Taiwan's Foxconn Discussing Electric Vehicle Plant In Wisconsin 52
Uber and Lyft Can't Find Drivers Because Gig Work Sucks 136
Volkswagen, BMW Fined $1 Billion For Colluding To Make Dirtier Cars 125
VW Offloads Bugatti To Rimac To Form New EV Company Bugatti-Rimac 51
Cathay Working On Single-Pilot System for Long-Haul 94
US Agency Orders Automated Vehicle Makers To Report Crashes 49
Canada To Ban Sale of New Fuel-Powered Cars and Light Trucks From 2035 273
41% Of Drivers Uncomfortable About Someday Sharing the Road with Self-Driving Cars 215
Robotic AI-Powered Ship Tries Retracing Mayflower's Voyage, Has to Turn Back 34
How Software Is Eating the Car 281
Southwest Airlines Delays and Cancels Flights for a Third Day 22
'Dozens' of Companies are Now Trying to Build Flying Cars 193
Nearly $1 Billion in Funding Restored for California Bullet Train 199
Airlines Plan To Plow Billions Into Flying Taxis 60
Volkswagen Says a Vendor's Security Lapse Exposed 3.3 Million Drivers' Details 23
Self-Driving Waymo Trucks To Haul Loads Between Houston and Fort Worth 91
Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project 41
What Would You Pay For Autonomous Driving? Volkswagen Hopes $8.50 Per Hour 241
United Airlines Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Air Travel 131
Apple Loses Multiple Top Managers From Self-Driving Car Division 54
Aerion Shuts Down, Halts Work On Proposed Supersonic Business Jet 35
Space Plane Startup Promises One-Hour Rides to Anywhere on Earth at 9,000 MPH 91
A New Worker-Owned Cooperative Starts Competing With Uber and Lyft 72
The Boring Company Tests Its 'Teslas In Tunnels' System In Las Vegas 119
Germany Aims To Get Self-Driving Cars On the Roads In 2022 73
California Will Require Uber, Lyft Drivers To Transition To Electric Cars 120
Do You Own a Motorcycle Airbag if You Have to Pay Extra to Inflate It? 166
World's First EV-Charging Highway Trial to Start In Italy 150
E-Bikes Can Provide a Good Workout 120
Ford Unveils the F-150 Lightning, Its All-Electric Pickup Truck That Will Start Under $40,000 401
Sidewalk Labs Launches Pebble, a Sensor That Uses Real-Time Data To Manage City Parking 57
Biden Test Drives Ford F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup 280
Cheap, Highly Efficient New EV Motor Uses No Magnets 159
Researchers Have Developed a Way To Wirelessly Charge Vehicles On the Road 146
Ford Patents Tech That Could Scan Billboards and Show Associated In-Car Ads 160
California Ban On Gas-Powered Cars Would Rewrite Plug-In Hybrid Rules 123
Amazon and Others Ordered To Slash Diesel Pollution From Warehouse Trucks 49
Electric Cars 'Will Be Cheaper To Produce Than Fossil Fuel Vehicles By 2027' 376
Electric Vehicles May Drive a Lithium Supply Crunch 176
Emails, Text Messages Can Be Retrieved From Smartphones Synced to Vehicles 71
Elon Musk's Own Engineers Say He Exaggerates Autopilot Capabilities 110
When Autonomous Cars Teach Themselves To Drive Better Than Humans 86
GM Expects To Offer Personal Self-Driving Vehicles To Consumers This Decade 56
Tesla Car Hacked Remotely From Drone Via Zero-Click Exploit 126
Early Signs of Dementia Can Be Detected By Tracking Driving Behaviors 93
Musk's Claims Challenged About Absence of Autopilot in Texas Tesla Crash 205
A Chinese Company Has Started Charging For Fully Driverless Rides 24
Tesla Accused of Environmental Rule Violations In US and Germany 127
'Self-Driving' Cars To Be Allowed On UK Roads This Year 34
New Bill Could Mandate Driver-Monitoring Systems In Future Cars 83
Lyft Will Sell Self-Driving Car Unit To a Subsidiary of Toyota For $550 Million 8
Work Proceeds on Mitigation Strategies for Global Navigation Satellite System Jamming/Spoofing 29
Honda To Stop Selling Combustion Engines Globally By 2040 132
Jaguar Land Rover To Suspend Output Due To Chip Shortage 33
Alphabet's Wing Seeks Expanded US Drone Flight Permissions 13
Consumer Reports Shows Tesla Autopilot Works With No One In the Driver's Seat 288
Concept Audi A6 E-Tron Has Headlights That Can Project Video Games 71
Elon Musk Denies Autopilot Use In Fatal Tesla Crash Where Police Claim 'No One Was Driving' 287
Two Dead After Fiery Tesla Crash 340
Mercedes-Benz Unveils New Flagship EQS Electric Sedan To Take On Tesla 90
A Tesla Helped Police Track Down a Hate Crime Suspect 78
France Is Giving Citizens $3,000 To Get Rid of Their Car and Get an Electric Bike 178
Ford's BlueCruise Self-Driving Tech Did a 110,000-Mile Road Trip 75
Business Travellers Planning To Cut Future Flights, Poll Finds 32
Intel's Mobileye Will Launch a Fully Driverless Delivery Service in 2023 30
Huawei To Invest $1 Billion on Car Tech It Says Surpasses Tesla 53
New Electrical Flaw Grounds More Than 60 737 MAXs, Adding To Boeing's Woes 75
France To Ban Some Domestic Flights Where Train Available 215
Elon Musk's Boring Company Finally Unveils Las Vegas Tunnel 233
Still-Unidentified Flying Drones Harassed Multiple US Navy Destroyers in 2019 207
In Serious Incident, Software Glitch Miscalculates the Weight of Three UK Flights 93
A Software Problem is Bricking Some Early Mustang Mach-Es 138
Saskatchewan To Roll Out $150 Annual Tax For Passenger Electric Vehicles 215
Uber, Lyft Tout US Ride-Hail Driver Pay, Incentives Amid Demand Uptick 26
EPA To Propose Vehicle Emissions Standards To Meet 'The Urgency of Climate Crisis' By July's End 100
Cyberware Attack Shuts Down Vehicle Emissions Testing In Georgia and Seven Other States 48
GM Is Building An Electric Chevy Silverado With 400 Miles of Range 112
DoorDash Drivers Game Algorithm To Increase Pay 123
Uber May Stop Letting Drivers See Destinations and Name Prices 141
Tesla Faces Even More Union Trouble In the EU 177
Tesla will Sell 'Green Credits' to Volkswagen in China 37
Will VW Face Regulatory Scrutiny Over It 'Voltswagen' Prank Like Elon Musk Did For His Tweets? 54
Uber Ordered To Pay $1.1 Million To Blind Passenger Who Was Denied Rides 14 Times 208
Exclusive Look Inside the US Supersonic Presidential Jet 70
Waymo CEO John Krafcik Is Leaving the Company 8
Swedish Carbon-Fiber Battery Could Revolutionize Car Design 97
Amtrak Unveils Vision of Expanded Rail Map Under Biden's Infrastructure Plan 253
Volkswagen Isn't Rebranding Itself Voltswagen 63
VW Accidentally Leaks New Name For Its US Operations: Voltswagen 66
Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Beta Called 'Laughably Bad and Potentially Dangerous' 232
Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi To Make EVs Using Great Wall's Plant 8
How Tesla's Bizarre Swipe-To-Drive Gear Selector Works 215
Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment 89
Is Sergey Brin Building the World's Biggest, Climate-Friendly Aircraft? 85
Can VW's Electric Cars Compete With Tesla's? 221
China Restricts Tesla Vehicles Over National Security Concerns 71
Surveillance Company Wants To Sell Over 15 Billion Car Locations To the US Military 62
Chuck Schumer Wants To Replace Every Gas Car in America With an Electric Vehicle 713
In First, Uber Agrees To Classify British Drives As 'Workers' 62
GM Builds Pickups Without Certain Modules Due To Global Chip Shortage, Hurting Fuel Economy 97
Drivers Are 24% More Likely To Speed When Using Adaptive Cruise Control 139
'Reliable Robotics' Startup Wants To Fill the Skies With Cargo-Filled Robot Planes 51
NTSB Cites Tesla To Make the Case For Stricter Autonomous Driving Regulation 77
Uber and Lyft Create a Shared Database of Drivers Banned For Assault 124
Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup 99
Traffic Congestion Dropped by 73% in 2020 Due To the Pandemic 79
China Debuts Train Prototype That Can Hit Speeds of 385 Miles Per Hour 172
Waymo Simulated Real-World Crashes To Prove Its Self-Driving Cars Can Prevent Deaths 72
'What the Truth Is': FAA Safety Engineer Slams Oversight of Boeing's 737 MAX 72
Honda Launches World's First Level 3 Self-Driving Car 71
Biden Pushes EV Chargers As Six Utilities Plan a Unified Network 294
Volvo To Go All Electric By 2030 176
Aptera Promises The World's First Mass-Produced Solar Car This Year 163
Sergey Brin's Airship Aims To Use World's Biggest Mobile Hydrogen Fuel Cell 58
Nikola Stops Work on Electric Watercraft and ATV Projects 36
After a Boeing 777 Rained Failed-Engine Debris on Neighborhood Below, More Planes Grounded 118
Will Boeing Become the Next McDonnell Douglas? 132
Uber Loses Gig Workers Rights Challenge in UK Supreme Court 151
Ford Plans for All Cars Sold in Europe To Be Electric by 2030 246

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