Transportation Stories for 2012

Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam 253
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height 111
Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare 342
World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China 322
Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs 215
The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle 375
How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? 337
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam 221
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust 338
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 57
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car 286
The State of In-Flight Wi-Fi 80
Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns 297
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion 231
Original Batmobile To Be Auctioned For the First Time Ever 51
In the World of Big Stuff, the US Still Rules 184
FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season 91
The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence 445
Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times 133
British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests 172
Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost 499
How Do We Program Moral Machines? 604
OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud 92
100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record 103
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women 591
UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo 222
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers 608
Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch 519
Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage 198
German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car 146
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests 56
Honda's "Micro Commuter" Features Swappable Bodies 96
Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage 421
Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers 510
Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder 148
Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise 238
Boeing 787 Makes US Debut 317
Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars 238
Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now 201
Tesla Model S Named 'Car of the Year' 303
Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy 414
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems 91
Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack 151
Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013 167
Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? 590
Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed 438
Canadian Researchers Create Wireless Charger For Electric Cars 179
Algal Biofuels Not Ready For Scale-Up 179
Crashed X-51A Test Results Released 48
Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes 199
Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides 88
Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data? 76
3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane 87
Canadian Space Agency Shows Off Prototype Rovers 70
China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion 230
TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports 168
Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced 212
Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol 580
NASA Exploring $1.5 Million Unmanned Aircraft Competition 38
Nissan Develops Emergency Auto-Steering System 391
Explosive Detecting Devices Face Off With Bomb Dogs 115
Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service 180
Commercial Amphibious Vehicle Is Part ATV Part Jet Ski 76
CIA: Flying Skyhook Wasn't Just For James Bond, It Actually Rescued Agents 123
$3,000 Tata Nano Car Coming To US 658
As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking 342
Tesla Motors Getting $10 Million From California For Model X Production 191
Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Journey 87
Making Driverless Cars Safer 140
Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel 205
US Looks For Input On "The Next Big Things" 309
Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up 288
SpaceX Dragon Set To Launch 111
Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico 77
Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World 197
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic 687
Virgin Galactic's Quiet News: Virgin Now Owns The SpaceShip Company 112
Ask Slashdot: Transporting Computers By Cargo Ship? 249
Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit 402
We Don't Need More Highways 244
Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners 119
Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters 341
Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car 262
Starting Next Year, Brazil Wants To Track All Cars Electronically 178
A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) 331
To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets 1651
Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal 170
California Legalizes Self Driving Cars 508
MIT Researchers Show Dash Font Choice Affects Distraction 147
Tesla Reveals Charging Station Sites In 3 US States 332
Goodyear's 'On TheGo' Self Inflating Tire 207
Toyota Abandons Plans For All-Electric Vehicle Rollout 490
Another EUSecWest NFC Trick: Ride the Subway For Free 135
No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission 265
TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners 335
Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought 867
Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland 297
Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? 340
DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not 228
BMW Cars Vulnerable To Blank Key Attack 291
Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker 153
FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight" 372
A Few Photos From Secretive Blue Origin: Is That a Crew Capsule? 70
India's ISRO Successfully Launches 100th Mission 39
NYC Taxi Commission Nixes Cab-Hailing Apps 264
Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit 992
NASA's Giant Crawler-Transporter Is Getting an Upgrade 135
TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New 427
Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy 327
Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV 365
Human-Powered Helicopter Team Sets New Records For Altitude and Flight Duration 59
Funky Flying Wing Rotates 90 Degrees To Go Supersonic 122
Biodiesel From Sewage Sludge 88
Makerplane Aims To Create the First Open Source Aircraft 100
Weebots: Driveable Robots For Babies Who Need Them 72
White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard 1184
FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use 336
Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India 398
A (Mostly) 3-D Printed Race Car Hits 140 Km/h 94
App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 144
Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car 130
Old Cars Are Getting Ahead With New Tech 53
Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt 826
Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work 335
FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System 141
Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights 112
US To Drive 3,000 Wi-Fi Linked Vehicles In Massive Crash Avoidance Trial 89
Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack 97
Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers 153
When Flying Was a Thrill 382
Microthrusters For Small Satellites 75
Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux 181
Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums 345
The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers 302
Boeing's X-51 WaveRider Jet Crashes In Mach 6 Attempt 190
Could Flying Cars Actually Be On Their Way? 381
Touch Interfaces In Cars Difficult To Use 233
NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow 214
White House Pulls Down TSA Petition 638
Launch Escape System To Be Tested For Apollo-Like Capsule In the Baltic Sea 42
In Brazil, All Vehicles Must Have Radio IDs By 2014 161
Minneapolis Police Catalog License Plates and Location Data 289
Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' 523
Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident 465
Inside Virttex, Ford's Driver Distraction Simulator 126
ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners 246
GM Working On Wi-Fi Direct-Equipped Cars To Detect Pedestrians and Cyclists 111
Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous 125
"Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court 103
Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did 403
New Coating Technology Promises Self-Cleaning Cars 88
Man Who Protested TSA By Stripping Is Acquitted By Judge 246
EPIC Files Motion About Ignored Body Scanner Ruling 183
Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? 543
Details of Chinese Moon Rocket Emerge 138
Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric 359
GM Car Owners With OnStar Now Can Be Their Own Rental Agencies 195
Bad Weather Brings Down Lawn Chair Balloonists 62
A Build-It-Yourself Electric Vehicle 84
Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? 650
Google Maps Adds UK Cycling Directions 62
DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later 242
Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built 625
Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes 486
The 300 km/h Superbus 180
Private Space Firm XCOR May Establish HQ In Midland, Texas 42
British Airways Plans To Google Passengers 177
Headlights That See Through Rain and Snow 210
EU Parliament Adopts eCall Resolution 212
Ford Predicts Self-Driving, Traffic-Reducing Cars By 2017 388
US Energy Transportation Network Gets Multibillion-Dollar Revamp 124
Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems 178
Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? 212
Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software 391
Gamera II Team Smashes Previous Best Human-Powered Helicopter Flight Time 118
Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans 311
The World's First Supercavitating Boat? 186
Canadian Government Backs Down On Airport Recording 36
At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded 211
Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation 585
No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving 257
NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt 148
Solar Impulse Completes First Intercontinental Solar Flight 56
Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York 157
Boeing Hydrogen Powered Drone First Flight 160
New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll 365
Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash 84
Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? 376
SpaceX Brownsville Space Port Opposed By Texas Environmentalists 409
Virgin Galactic's Suborbital Spacecraft Gets FAA Blessing 65
Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts 174
Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test 148
Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge 200
Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle 153
DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years 295
Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers 217
Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China 141
Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% 721
World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure 159
London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics 202
Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity 545
How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? 648
Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard 339
UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert 440
Congress: The TSA Is Wasting Hundreds of Millions In Taxpayer Dollars 199
Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues 181
TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump 811
Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat 332
Google Gets Driverless License For Nevada Roads 215
Swiss Solar Powered Catamaran Finishes 'Round the World Tour 110
Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard 171
Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard 373
Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug 1051
Botched Repair Likely Cause of Combusting iPhone After Flight 181
Electric Airplane Ready For Production 239
Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II 289
Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster 319
Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago 109
Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car 293
Terminal Mixup Implicates TSA Agents In LAX Smuggling Plot 255
TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl 1174
Google and the Future of Travel 93
TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication 190
IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery 582
Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 628
Google Earth Incorporates Crowdsourced Balloon Images 20
Open Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not? 178
Man Protests TSA With Nudity 434
Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue 307
Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' 113
The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws 378
Former TSA Administrator Speaks 196
Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars 911
Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound 402
Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes 260
Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' 582
New Zealand Developers Building Open Source Code For Electric Cars 45

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