Transportation Stories for 2024

Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America 128
Ford Just Reported a Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold 154
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights 75
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail 236
Linux Can Finally Run Your Car's Safety Systems and Driver-Assistance Features 44
Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks 157
Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries 29
Chinese Flying Taxi Sector Claims Global Lead Thanks To Regulatory Support 34
Should Automakers Feel Threatened by China's Exports of Electric Cars? 305
Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles 20
British Columbia Bans Level 3 and Above Autonomous Cars 86
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 84
Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
Two Boeing Whistleblowers Allege Disregarded Worker Concerns, Pressure For Speed 72
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 283
Waymo Launches Paid Robotaxi Service In Los Angeles 31
Cruise Robotaxis Are Back in Phoenix - But People Are Driving Them 23
Report: Boeing 'Put Wall Street First, Safety Second', Creating 'Yearslong Decline of Safety Standards' 231
Boeing Engine Cover Rips Apart During Takeoff This Morning 182
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August 8 154
Will EVs Kill the Stick Shift Car? 370
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
New Pollution Rules Aim To Lift Sales of Electric Trucks 179
New York City Welcomes Robotaxis - But Only With Safety Drivers 34
Air Industry Trends Safer, But 'Flukish' Second Crash Led Boeing to Mishandled Media Storm, WSJ Argues 78
Truck-To-Truck Worm Could Infect Entire US Fleet 50
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
Boom's XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator Makes First Flight 23
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
Hertz CEO Resigns After Blowing Big Gamble On EVs 214
Was Nosediving Boeing Plane Caused By a Flight Attendant Hitting a Motorized Seat Switch? 166
Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Apparent Suicide 148
US Investigates Fatal Crash of Ford EV With Partially Automated Driving System 41
Tiny Sea Creatures Could Help Unravel Flight MH370's Mysterious Disappearance. 28
After Flight to Oregon, Boeing 737-800 Lands with a Missing External Panel 64
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
Lyft and Uber To Cease Operations In Minneapolis After New Minimum Wage Law 130
India Cuts Import Taxes on EVs in Boost For Tesla's Entry Plans 41
Waymo To Launch Commercial Robotaxi Service in Austin By End of the Year 17
Apple Developed Chip Equivalent To Four M2 Ultras For Apple Car Project 61
World's Largest Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First Powered Flight 32
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 229
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 117
Boeing's Woes Continue as 50 Injured on Australia-New Zealand Flight 112
America's Justice Department Opens Criminal Investigation Into Boeing's Window Blowout Incident 64
Amazon-Backed Rivian Surges 13% After Announcing Cheaper New SUV 62
Waymo Launches Driverless Rides For Employees In Austin 14
Carmakers Must Bring Back Physical Buttons, Says Europe 177
Homeless Man Tries to Steal Waymo Robotaxi in Los Angeles 93
New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You 199
Road-Embedded Sensors to Find Street Parking Tested in Taiwanese City 17
Boeing Now Also Ordered to Fix Anti-Ice System on 737 Max, 787 Jets 47
California Approves Waymo Robotaxi Services In LA, SF Neighboring Cities 12
Ford EV Owners Can Now Charge On Tesla's Network 65
'Anyone Rooting Against Self-driving Cars is Cheering For Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Year After Year' 365
US Will Investigate National Security Risks Posed By Chinese-made 'Smart Cars' 68
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car 244
Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Keep Hitting Things: A Cyclist, a Gate, and a Pickup Truck 127
$500 Drone Calculates Its GPS Coordinates Offline from Downloaded Google Maps and a Camera 59
How 'Smart Keys' Have Fueled a New Wave of Car Thefts 177
Boeing Removes Head of Its 737 Max Program After January's 'Door Bolts' Incident 52
Mercedes-Benz Backs Off Plan To Only Sell EVs By 2030 203
Waymo's Application To Expand California Robotaxi Operations Paused By Regulators 15
Biden Administration Is Said To Slow Early Stage of Shift To Electric Cars 343
Why Are California's EV Sales Dropping? 315
Waymo Recalls and Updates Robotaxi Software After Two Cars Crashed 41
San Francisco Mob Lights Driverless Waymo Car on Fire 141
Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter 41
Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Fueling Stations 172
Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator 99
Uber Records First Annual Profit 33
Massachusetts Legislature Moving To Ban Wearing VR Headsets While Driving 203
Waymo Driverless Car Strikes Bicyclist In San Francisco, Causes Minor Injuries 115
Parisians Vote For Rise in Parking Fees for SUVs 301
GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 179
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening To Trains 21
Cruise Faces Long Road Back To City Streets in Wake of Safety Review 23
NYC Wants To Create a First-of-Its Kind Department To Regulate App Based Delivery 38
GPS Interference Now a Major Flight Safety Concern For Airline Industry 41
California Bill Wants To Mandate Electronic 'Speed Limiters' in Cars 362
America's Car Industry Seeks to Crush AM Radio. Will Congress Rescue It? 262
18-Year-Old Cleared After Encrypted Snapchat Joke Led To F-18s and Arrest 133
How You Can Charge Your EV If You Don't Own a House 186
Climate Change Cripples Panama Canal. Fixing it Could Take Years 148
US Energy Secretary Says Anti-EV Sentiment is 'Political Nonsense' 382
Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led To Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars 35
Apple Dials Back Car's Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch To 2028 67
Lamborghini Licenses MIT's New High-Capacity, Fast-Charging Organic Battery Tech 81
What's the Solution to Gridlocked EV Chargers? 426
Do Electric Vehicles Fail at a Lower Rate Than Gas Cars In Extreme Cold? 216
'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back' 153
Uber Shutting Down Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly 36
FedEx Announces Its Own Commerce Platform For Merchants 15
WSJ: Boeing's Fuselage Factory 'Plagued' by Production Problems and Quality Lapses 78
US Regulator Considers Stripping Boeing's Right To Self-Inspect Planes 159
White House Unveils $623 Million In Funding To Boost EV Charging Points 101
Polestar CEO Promises To Keep Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Around 30
Hertz is Selling 20,000 Electric Vehicles To Buy Gasoline Cars Instead 217
United and Alaska Find Loose Bolts on Boeing 737 Max 9 Planes 155
Waymo Will Start Testing Robotaxis On Phoenix Highways 30
Volkswagen Says It's Putting ChatGPT In Its Cars For 'Enriching Conversations' 86
Hundreds of US Car Dealerships Abandon Buicks. Are EVs to Blame? 210
America's FAA Temporarily Grounds All Boeing 737 Max 9s - After a Window Blows Off In-Flight 148
More than a Third of America's EVs Were Bought Within the Last 12 Months 152
New Cars Bought in the UK Must Be Zero Emission by 2035 202
Driverless Cars Immune From Traffic Tickets In California Under Current Laws 52
Tesla Extends Lead in Norway Sales, EVs Take 82% Market Share 122