Transportation Stories for 2022

The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest's Failure? Software Shortcomings 159
Waze Tests New Alerts Warning Drivers About Roads With a 'History of Crashes' 35
Tesla Model Y Is Now the Best-Selling Car In All of Europe 95
US To Require COVID Tests For Travelers Coming From China 85
Southwest Canceled 5,400 Flights In Less Than 48 Hours 50
Baidu Starts Offering Nighttime Driverless Taxis in China 28
Audi Is Converting All Factories To Produce EVs As It Phases Out Gas Cars 133
USPS Expects To Only Buy Electric Delivery Vehicles Starting in 2026 183
America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include 'Remote ID' Transmitting 186
Waymo's Driverless Robotaxis Are Now Doing Airport Trips in Phoenix 12
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
Tesla Launches Steam In Its Cars With Thousands of Games 105
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Can a 'Virtual' Manual Transmission Bring the Stick Shift to Electric Cars? 376
To Pursue Climate Goals, JetBlue Switches from Carbon Offsets to Sustainable Aviation Fuels 41
Boeing's Last 747 Rolls Out of the Factory After More Than 50-Year Production Run 122
Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Till '26 56
France Bans Short Haul Domestic Flights in Favour of Train Travel 216
Amazon Builds a New Drone - But Is It Falling Behind Other Drone Delivery Services? 39
Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio 320
Driverless Electric Robot Tractors are Here, Powered by NVIDIA AI Chips 82
Chinese Joint Venture Will Begin Mass-Producing an Autonomous Electric Car 60
Becoming America's #2 Seller of Electric Vehicles, Ford Passes Kia in November 73
America's TSA Begins Quietly Testing Facial Recognition Tech at 16 Airports 87
Tesla Delivers Its First Electric Semi Trucks 136
Hyundai App Bugs Allowed Hackers To Remotely Unlock, Start Cars 29
Rolls-Royce Successfully Tests Hydrogen-Powered Jet Engine 133
Automakers Are Locking the Aftermarket Out of Engine Control Units 175
Will Made-in-China EV's Bring New Competition for Automakers? 146
South Korean Capital Launches Self-Driving Bus Experiment 29
Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind a $1,200 Annual Paywall 249
Aviation Regulators Push for More Automation so Flights Can Be Run by a Single Pilot 157
Waymo Will Soon Offer Some (Free) Fully Driverless Rides in San Francisco 39
Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles 162
US Safety Watchdog Warns Against Onewheel Boards After Reported Ejection Injuries 71
US Fines Airlines More Than $7 Million for Not Providing Refunds 29
Studies Find Automatic Braking Can Cut Crashes Over 40% 176
Waymo Is Using Its Self-Driving Taxis To Create Real-Time Weather Maps 15
Report Blames Faulty System, Pilot Error for Boeing 737-500 Crash in 2021 86
US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology 87
Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost 122
After 908 Days in Orbit, US Military's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 25
Volkswagen Builds Star Trek Captain's Chair That Goes 12 MPH 60
Tesla Opens Its EV Charge Connector In the Hope of Making It the New Standard 100
Paris Opens Flying Taxi Hub Targeting Flights for 2024 Olympics 12
California Voters Weigh New Tax On Rich To Boost EV Adoption 133
Despite EVs, People Are Buying Manual Transmission Vehicles 492
Virgin Galactic Delays Development of Ship Capable of Higher Flight Rate 26
Apple Supplier Foxconn Partners With Saudi Wealth Fund To Build EVs 16
Chinese Tycoon Spent 8 Years, $3 Billion on EV That Went Unbuilt 25
Electric Scooter Ban Increased Congestion In Atlanta By 10%, Study Finds 68
TuSimple Fires Its CEO Xiaodi Hou Amid Probe 9
Teleport Creators Raise $9 Million To Build Decentralized Uber Rival On Solana 23
EU Reaches Deal To Ban Sale of New Combustion-Engine Cars By 2035 124
Ford, VW-Backed Argo AI Is Shutting Down 23
New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees 136
FAA Warns of Aviation Safety Risks Without US Mandate On 5G Limits 52
The Largest Electric School Bus Fleet In the US Launches In Maryland 70
Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It's Practically Free 53
Are High-Tech Cars Killing Auto Repair Shops? 196
Fast-Charging EV Batteries With Nickel Foil 193
US Judge: Passengers in Fatal Boeing 737 MAX Crashes are 'Crime Victims' 83
New Jersey Legislators Aim To Ban Most In-Car Subscriptions 152
BMW Will Build a $1.7 Billion EV Battery Factory In South Carolina 25
Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted As FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals 54
World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People On Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore 80
Lufthansa Changes Mind, Now Says Apple AirTags Are Allowed on Luggage 19
Honda and Sony To Build an EV That Entertains While It Takes the Wheel 44
California Legalizes Digital License Plates, With $1,100 Price Tag 90
Lufthansa Says Passengers Can't Use Apple AirTags to Track Checked Bags 72
Many US Drivers Treat Partially Automated Cars As Self-Driving 117
Amazon To Invest Over 1 Billion Euros in European Electric Van, Truck Fleet 28
Nations Agree To Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050 58
United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030 108
'How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails' 289
Tesla Starts Production of Electric Semi Truck 95
Tesla Now Has 160,000 Customers Running Its Full Self Driving Beta 134
Why Toyota Isn't All-In On EVs 373
SF To Feds: Cruise Driverless Cars Keep Blocking Our Roads 70
New York To Mandate Zero-Emission Vehicles in 2035 184
An All-Electric Passenger Plane Completed Its First Test Flight 102
All 50 States Get Green Light To Build EV Charging Stations 133
Amtrak Aims For Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 77
Kia Plans To Build EVs In the US To Comply With New Federal Tax Credit 62
When's the Best Time To Charge Your EV? Not at Night, Stanford Study Finds 190
Amazon Hires Unsafe Trucking Firms Twice As Often As Peers, WSJ Finds 40
Nvidia Unveils Drive Thor, One Chip To Rule All Software-Defined Vehicles 56
Flying Car Startup Kitty Hawk Is Winding Down 41
NTSB Wants Alcohol Detection Systems Installed In All New Cars In US 279
Denmark and Germany Now Building the World's Longest Immersed Tunnel 78
Companies Make Progress in Using Silicon to Boost EV Lithium-ion Batteries 93
'It Felt Like Star Wars': Flying Hoverbike Makes Its US Debut 117
GPS Jammers Are Being Used to Hijack Trucks and Down Drones 83
Former Apple Design Boss Jony Ive: Car Buyers Will Demand The Return of Physical Buttons 180
TGV Unveils High-Speed Trains of the Future 98
Uber Eats Will Begin Using Nuro Delivery Robots 20
'Disruptive' Drone-Delivery Startup Zipline Hires Former Tesla CFO 33
Tesla Considers Building a Lithium Refinery for EV Batteries in Texas 86
United Airlines Plans To Buy Up To 500 Electric Flying Taxis 50
World's Largest Cruise Ship To Be Scrapped Before First Voyage 155
Rolls Royce Exits Boom's Supersonic Airliner Project 51
Will Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Mean Fewer Auto-Parts Manufacturing Jobs? 147
How Shady Ships are Spoofing Their Locations with Fake GPS Coordinates 92
'The E-Bike Is a Monstrosity' 176
Spain Launches Free Train Tickets Throughout Autumn, Thanks To a Windfall Tax 26
Cruise Recalls Robotaxies After Passenger Injured In Crash 59
Someone Hacked Largest Taxi Service In Russia, Ordered All Available Taxis To the Same Location 64
California Asks Residents Not To Charge Electric Vehicles 312
Germany's 9-Euro Train Tickets Scheme 'Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2 Emissions' 177
Soon Electric Vehicles Could Charge Faster Than Your iPhone 321
Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner 31
New York City is Owed $500 Million in Parking Fines. No One is Paying Up 177
The World's First Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Trains Are Here 124
New York State Bill Would Require Speed Limiting Tech In New Cars 155
California To Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars 385
France Is Giving 4,000 Euros To People Who Trade In Their Car For an E-Bike 202
Ford To Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid Restructuring 43
World's First Commercial Electric Seaplane Completes Short-Haul Flight 75
Elon Musk Interviewed by Tesla Owners, Hears from a Former Professor 93
Lincoln's Concept Car Replaces Steering Wheel with Mouse-Like 'Controller' 63
Will the World's Lithium Suppliers Slow Production of Electric Vehicles? 184
Lyft Begins Offering Driverless Robotaxis on the Las Vegas Strip 37
Australia To Target Vehicle Emissions To Boost Electric Car Supply 54
Dodge's Electric Charger SRT Concept Has Fake V8 Noise, Exhausts 178
Buttons Beat Touchscreens In Cars, and Now There's Data To Prove It 142
American Airlines Agrees To Buy 20 Supersonic Planes from Boom 116
California Startup Sells 'Subscriptions' to Electric Vehicles 121
Baidu Has China's First Permits For Fully Driverless Robotaxi Services 32
GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory On GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models 228
Ford Raises Prices of F-150 Lightning Electric Truck By Thousands of Dollars, Citing Rising Material Costs. 258
Over 100K Cars Shut From North American Production This Week Due To Chip Shortage 117
The 'Switchblade' Flying Car is Ready for Takeoff 89
US Airlines Are Cancelling Thousands of Flights 84
GM Is Doubling the Size of Its Super Cruise Network In the US, Canada 68
A Handful of States Are Driving Nearly All US Electric Car Adoption 337
Bolt Mobility Has Vanished, Leaving E-bikes and Unanswered Calls Behind in Several US Cities 45
US Air Force Grounds Most of Its F-35 Fighter Jets Over Ejection Seat Concerns 102
Senate Moves Forward With EV Tax Credit Reform 220
JetBlue Announces a Deal To Buy Spirit Airlines. Fares Could Surge 41
Spotify Has Stopped Making Its Car Thing Dashboard Accessory 23
US Resurrects Green Energy Loan Program For GM Battery Joint Venture 32
In Detroit, the Motor City, Chip Shortage Has Left the City Eerily Short of Cars 79
Porsches Postponed by Buggy Software Cost VW's CEO His Job 40
Apple's Patent History Reveals a Major Push Into Autos 28
Solar-Powered Tower Produces Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel from Just CO2, Water, and Sunlight 53
Apple's New Car Software Could Be a Trojan Horse Into the Automotive Industry 53
Ford to Fund Its EV Efforts in Part by Laying Off 8,000 Workers 121
USPS To More Than Double Order of Electric Trucks 223
VW Brings Back 'Scout' Brand Truck As Electric Vehicle Made In America 82
UK Set To Have World's Biggest Automated Drone Superhighway 30
American Airlines Reserves 50 Flying Taxis 41
A Detroit Airport's 'Parallel Reality' Display Shows 100 People Different Things 50
Amazon's Prime Air Drones Will Soon Make Deliveries In Texas 52
BMW Starts Selling Heated Seat Subscriptions for $18 a Month 374
Hackers Uncover Ways To Unlock and Start Nearly All Modern Honda-Branded Vehicles 40
'Hit the Kill Switch': How Uber Used Covert Tech to Thwart Government Raids 85
GM's Cruise so Far: A Crash, and 60 RoboTaxis 'Disabled' After Losing Server Contact 146
North Carolina Looks To Remove Public EV Chargers, Probably To the Trash 239
Will EVs Mean the End of AM Radio In Cars? 150
Europe Wants a High-Speed Rail Network To Replace Airplanes 82
Toyota Will Be the Third Automaker To Lose the EV Tax Credit In the US 63
After Reports of Mid-Air Emergencies, US Will Audit Boeing's Oversight of 737 Max 119
Countries Form New NATO-Like 'Mineral Security' Alliance to Ensure EV Supplies 53
What Happened After Massachusetts Voters Approved a Right-to-Repair Law? 48
Ford Says You Can Never Own Leased EVs 257
Electric Fan Car Shatters Goodwood Hill Climb Record 61
Here Come the Solar-Powered Cars 102
Are Air Taxis Getting Closer? 75
Volvo Starts Testing Trucks With Fuel Cells Powered By Hydrogen 141
World's Most Efficient Passenger Plane Gets Hydrogen Powertrain 59
Boring Company Receives Approval For Expanding Its Tunnels To Downtown Las Vegas 88
GM 3D Prints 60,000 Parts to Keep Producing SUVs 57
Biden To Require EV Charging Stations Every 50 Miles On Federal Highways 334
Plasma Ignition System Can Increase Engine Efficiency By 20% 227
EU Lawmakers Endorse Ban On Combustion-Engine Cars In 2035 207
Waymo Is Teaming Up With Uber On Autonomous Trucking 37
Next-Generation Apple CarPlay Will Be a Whole Car OS 118
Driverless Taxis Are Coming To the Streets of San Francisco 58
Ford Wants To Move To Online-Only Sales For EVs 224
Germany Slashes Summer Train Fares More Than 90 Percent To Curb Driving, Save Fuel 85
Egypt Set For World's Sixth Largest High-Speed Rail System 78
Will Electric Cars Transform the Workforce? 181
Ford Pays Millions Over False Claims About Its 2013 Hybrid's Fuel Economy 32
Ukrainian Fighters Take to Electric Bikes in War Against Russia 89
New Airbus Facility To Research Cryogenic Fuel Systems For Next-Gen Hydrogen Planes 68
IndyCar Is Moving To 100% Renewable Ethanol In 2023 43
Driverless Cars Could Force Other Road Users To Drive More Efficiently 221
EPA Opens Applications For Its $5 Billion Clean School Bus Program 156
Navy Ships Swarmed By Drones, Not UFOs, Defense Officials Confirm 103
Electrify America Will Be 100 Percent Solar-Powered By 2023 80
Why Tesla Was Kicked Out of the S&P 500's ESG Index 174
Georgia Gets a Second Electric Vehicle Facility? Hyundai Plans $7B Plant 23
America's FAA Shifts Gears Slightly on Certifying Future 'Flying Taxi' Pilots 20
FAA Revokes Certificates of Two Pilots Involved in Plane-Swapping Attempt 84
San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras 50
Google's New Android Auto Interface Works With Any Screen Size 16
Mercedes-Benz Opens Sales of Level 3 Self-Driving System In Germany 71
All 2023 Volvos Will Have Hybrid Or Fully Electric Powertrains 75
Biden Administration Begins $3 Billion Plan for Electric Car Batteries 143
Consortium is Creating 'Passports' to Track Contents and Repair History of Europe's EV Batteries 30
16 States, Several Environmental Groups Sue USPS Over Purchase of Gas-Guzzling Mail Trucks 209
Most People Now Prefer Shopping Online For Cars Than Shopping In-Person 130
India Reiterates Pitch for Tesla To Make Electric Cars Locally 72
Half of Tesla's New Cars Produced Use Cobalt-Free LFP Batteries 70
Two Skydiving Pilots Try to Change Planes in Mid-Air 102
Michigan Announces America's First Public In-Road Charging Test for Electric Vehicles 96
Energy Department Challenges Students To Wring More Efficiency From EVs 64
UK's Department for Transport Proposes To Allow Drivers To Watch TV on Self-Driving Cars 47
Honda Hits 3D Printing Sites With Takedown Orders Over Honda-Compatible Parts 120
'Speedcam Anywhere' App Allows Anyone To Submit Evidence of Drivers Speeding 323
Europe Is Investing Heavily In Trains 124
Autonomous Cruise Car Encounter With Police Raises Policy Questions 74
Uber To Create Travel 'Superapp' By Adding Planes, Trains and Rental Cars 18
The US Government Has Just 1% of the EV Chargers It Needs 104
Google Offers Employees Free Electric Scooters To Get Them Back To the Office 47
Hertz Will Order Up To 65,000 Polestar EVs For Its Rental Fleet 35
How to Defeat Putin and Save the Planet 219
Audi Owner Finds Basic HVAC Function Paywalled After Pressing the Button For It 173
New Vehicles Must Average 40 MPG By 2026, Up From 28 MPG 272
Can Controlling Vehicles Make Streets Safer and More Climate Friendly? 77
Canada Will Ban Sales of Combustion Engine Passenger Cars By 2035 374
Waymo Opens Driverless Robotaxi Service To San Francisco Employees 19
Can VW's Electrify America Make EV Charging Stations a 'Customer Oasis'? 85
Musk Reveals Plan To Scale Tesla To 'Extreme Size' 79
Chinese Airliner Crashes With 132 Aboard in Country's South 123
Self-Driving Trucks Could Replace 90% of Human Long-Distance Truckers, Finds Study 221
US Schools Can Subscribe To An Electric School Bus Fleet At Prices That Beat Diesel 100
Maserati Plans To Go Fully Electric By 2025 66
Rivian Teases Jobs For Georgia If The State Considers Direct Sales 86
Ford Plans to Just Start Selling SUVs Without Some of Their Chips 165
PG&E Will Pilot Bidirectional Electric Car Charging In California 82
US Eliminates Human Controls Requirement For Fully Automated Vehicles 60
Biden Restores California's Ability To Impose Stricter Auto Pollution Limits 252
China Led World With 500,000 Electric Car Exports In 2021 73
Britain To Start Approval Process for Rolls-Royce Mini Nuclear Reactor 99
EPA Proposes New Rules To Cut Heavy Truck Emissions 67
California Issues Permits To Cruise, Waymo For Autonomous Vehicle Service 21
Rivian CEO Apologizes, Walks Back Preorder Price Hikes After Customer Backlash 30
Burnt-Out Ship Carrying 4,000 Vehicles Sinks, Costing VW At Least $155 Million 93
Four US States Plan $8 Billion Hydrogen Fuel Hub 145
Losses Estimated at $334M For Cargo Ship Fire, as Lithium-Ion Batteries Burned More Than a Week 73
USPS Finalizes Plans To Buy Gas-Powered Delivery Fleet, Defying the EPA and White House 419
Virgin Hyperloop Shifts Its Focus From Passengers To Cargo 37
Waymo To Keep Robotaxi Safety Details Secret, Court Rules 16
Tesla Is Working To Make Steam Video Games Work In Its Vehicles 109
US Clears Way For Automakers To Install Smart Headlights 39
New York Is Now Using Cameras With Microphones To Ticket Loud Cars 144
The US Will Finally Allow Adaptive Beam Headlights on New Cars 177
DeLorean Is Being Revived (Again), This Time As Electric Vehicle 82
EV Start-up Polestar Takes Shots At Tesla, Musk and Volkswagen In Super Bowl Ad 55

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