Transportation Stories for 2015

The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use 132
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display 108
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? 235
Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress 111
Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard 48
Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics 169
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars In Just Two Years, Elon Musk Boldly Declares 172
Report: Google Partners With Ford To Make Self-Driving Cars 143
Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES 112
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels 313
Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing 95
The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw 748
CA DMV Releases Draft Requirements For Autonomous Vehicles On Public Streets 139
iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI 98
Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law 180
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services 96
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
In Nevada, the World's First "Droneport" 12
Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory 110
Samsung Enters Auto Industry To Make Electronics For Autonomous Cars 31
Baidu Speeds Up Driverless Race With First Full Test On Beijing Roads 37
Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket 114
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
Samsung Launches Business Unit To Focus On Driverless Cars 37
Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected 84
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input 60
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops 423
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive 131
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands 238
How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? 211
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset 74
15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom 178
Airbus Patent Shows Modular, Removable Aircraft Cabins 96
The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up 172
Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing 226
Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator 171
VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims 177
Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining 127
Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles 277
Driverless Cars Will Compete -- But Only With Each Other -- In Formula E Races 44
Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England 20
London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel 188
Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? 42
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again 121
Tesla To Voluntarily Recall Every Model S Because One Seat Belt Came Apart 207
TGV Accident Caused By Excessive Speed 96
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Volvo Unveils Autonomous Concept Car, WIth Retracting Wheel, 25" Display 154
Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal 210
How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" 387
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet 366
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10 129
Dubai Buys Commercial Jetpacks For Firefighters 91
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency 161
Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket 350
Uber South Africa Launches $500 a Month Car Lease Which Includes Replacing Tires 83
What Happened To Passenger Hovercraft? 69
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data 201
Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be 258
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) 349
Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars 208
EPA Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including In a Porsche 142
NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive 203
How Tesla's Autopilot and Google's Car Are Entirely Different Animals 142
Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? 144
Universities, Gov't Testing Magnetic Resonance Charging For EVs In Transit 77
Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? 439
The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car 259
Two Radically Different Approaches to Private Access to Space 44
California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles 342
Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled 55
Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked 25
Stanford's Autonomous DeLorean Can't Time Travel, But It Can Do Donuts 28
Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone 242
Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation 222
The Box That Built the Modern World 216
Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math 385
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful 106
Experts Have No Confidence That We Can Protect Cars and Streets From Hackers 97
Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks 242
Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving 327
Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric 230
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous 397
Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California 554
Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems 36
Emissions Scandal Expands: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi 420
Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal 479
Volvo Will Accept Liability For Self-Driving Car Crashes 203
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast 153
Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights 64
Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data 423
London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups 216
What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? 106
Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine 140
Sex, Drugs, and Transportation: How Politicians Tried To Keep Uber Out of Vegas 136
Daimler Tests a Self-Driving Truck On the Autobahn 130
This is not F1 (or NASCAR): High-End Hybrids Race In Texas 28
'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber 239
Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy 153
EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget 203
San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians 278
Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity 323
Virginia State Police Cars Hacked 40
Tesla Unveils the Model X 323
Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' 471
Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three 398
Amazon Launches 'Flex,' a Crowdsourced Delivery Service 145
John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero 106
Uber's Rivals Forming an International Alliance 26
UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration 166
Reports: Volkswagen Was Warned of Emissions Cheating Years Ago 161
Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" 181
Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi 494
ESA-JAXA Team Wins 'America's Cup of Rocket Science' 20
VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down 569
Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" 535
Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software 301
Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software 471
Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours 221
Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air 124
AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record 21
Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming 411
The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans 104
The Era of Open Source Cars 31
Porsche Unveils Its First Electric Car 213
Intel Establishes Automotive Security Review Board 39
Only Self-Awareness Can Keep Drones Out of Do Not Fly Zones 165
Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech 247
Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars 122
Honda To Test Self-Driving Cars In California 34
10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles 451
GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar 91
California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors 367
Boston Tracks Vehicles, Lies About It, Leaves Data Exposed 88
Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US 696
Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors 122
Toyota To Spend $50 Million On Self-Driving Car Tech 53
Some Uber Ride Data Publicly Accessible Through Google 28
Pioneer Looks To Laserdisc Tech For Low-Cost LIDAR 52
Copenhagen's New All-Electric Public Carsharing Programming 84
Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars 63
How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving 451
Kristian von Bengston's New Goal: The Moon 24
Arro Taxi App Arrives In NYC As 'Best Hope' Against Uber 155
Uber Hires Hackers Who Remotely Killed a Jeep 31
Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car 417
Verizon Retrofits Vintage Legacy Vehicles With Smart Features 87
Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive 194
Oakland Changes License Plate Reader Policy After Filling 80GB Hard Drive 275
When Should Cops Be Allowed To Take Control of Self-Driving Cars? 236
Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk 192
Tesla Partners With Airbnb, Subsidizes Chargers 59
Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either 250
San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks 258
The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement 345
Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016 107
HTV-5 On Its Way To the ISS 87
Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory 234
US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence 264
Uber Lowers Drunk Driving Arrests In San Francisco Dramatically 204
Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? 373
Documents Indicate Apple Is Building a Self-Driving Car 118
Google Research Leads To Automated Real-Time Pedestrian Detection 57
London Deploys Cycle Superhighways Despite "Old Men In Limos" 258
England To Test "Electric Motorways" 74
'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years 87
Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' 373
Hackers Remotely Cut a Corvette's Brakes 161
Uber Drivers Arrested By Undercover Cops In Hong Kong 231
BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack 108
Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks 178
How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia 168
Finnish Police: If You See Uber Car, Call 911 330
Tesla Suffering Cash Flow Issues; Every Model S Means a $4,000 Loss 232
Japanese Engineer Develops 'WalkCar,' a Mini-Segway 103
Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' 206
Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked 262
Latest Samy Kamkar Hack Unlocks Most Cars 97
Tesla's Creepy 'Solid Metal Snake' Robotic Charger Slithers Its Way Into Model S 109
Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? 280
MH370: Fragment Is From Missing Flight 272
Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain 80
Tesla Presses Its Case On Fuel Standards 291
Uber Invests $1 Billion In Indian Market 54
Epic Mega Bridge To Connect America With Russia Gets Closer To Reality 465
Solar-Powered Flight For 81 Hours: a New Endurance World Record 34
Facebook's Slender 'Aquila' Drone To Provide Internet In Remote Areas 55
JAXA Successfully Tests Its D-SEND Low-Noise Supersonic Aircraft 31
GasBuddy Has a New Privacy Policy (Spoiler: Not As Customer Friendly) 113
Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? 231
Munich Planning Highway System For Cyclists 163
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon 207
Hacker's Device Can Intercept OnStar's Mobile App and Unlock, Start GM Cars 54
Indian Ocean Debris Believed To Come From Missing Flight MH370 89
Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? 904
US Navy Tests 3D Printing Custom Drones On Its Ships 66
Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones 142
Poor Pilot Training Blamed For Virgin Galactic Crash 83
Fiat Chrysler Hit With Record $105 Million Fine Over Botched Recalls 83
After Progressive Insurance's Snapshot Hacked, Manufacturer Has Been, Too 3
When Do Robocars Become Cheaper Than Standard Cars? 252
Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Autos To Fix Remote Hack 157
Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call 60
Remote Control of a Car, With No Phone Or Network Connection Required 160
Cell Service At US Airports Varies From 1st Class To Middle-seat Coach 40
Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit 247
U. Michigan Opens a Test City For Driverless Cars 76
Remote Exploit On a Production Chrysler To Be Presented At BlackHat 173
Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night 192
Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company 193
UK Government Releases Rules To Get Self-Driving Cars Onto Public Roads 157
UK Pilots Want Lithium Battery Powered Devices In the Cabin 69
Massachusetts Examining Disability Access For Uber, Lyft 155
Plastic Roads Sound Like a Crazy Idea, Maybe Aren't 183
Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles 188
Famed Aircraft Designer James Bede Dies 28
"Ludicrous Speed" For Tesla's Model S Means 0-60 MPH In 2.8 Seconds 171
Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident 549
Solar Impulse Grounded Until 2016 25
Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew 334
Toyota Recalls 625,000 Hybrid Vehicles Over Software Glitch 56
Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? 143
65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug 97
Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours 238
Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train 674
Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? 654
Automakers Unwilling To Share Driver Data (Yet) 151
NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns 363
Uber Class-Action Case May Hinge On What the Drivers Want 88
Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline 394

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