Driving

New research finds use of painkillers more than doubles the risk that a driver will set into motion a fatal two-car crash.

Before self-driving cars begin appearing on our roadways, we need to ensure that they can cope with the potential hazards of driving alongside other vehicles.

Deadly car crashes are 12 percent more likely on April 20th, and it doesn't take a genius to guess why.

The decision comes eight months after women were first able to run and vote in local elections.

A number of little actions can go a long way.

As with many cultural artifacts, the Japanese have taken the truck and expressed it, enlarged it, raised it to what we might consider an architectural form.

A Chinese study finds people who pay more attention to what's bad about the world also get in more accidents.

As cities try to control their air pollution with driving bans, research finds citizens react by buying more cars, watching more television, and, sometimes, by driving less and contributing to lower pollution in their towns.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

One California lawyer thinks that the tech companies that make them should spend a whole lot of money reminding drivers of that fact.

Across the country, non-white drivers are more likely to be stopped, and those stops are more likely to lead to frisks, searches, and tickets.

For many drivers and riders, the convenience that ride-sharing offers is simply too tough to pass up.

A perfect combination of fear and overconfidence produces dangerous escalations of tiny incidents. The best course of action is to allow the guy flipping you the bird to drive right past.

A combination of location, credit card fees, and brand: basically, nothing worth paying for.

The ride-sharing service published a report with Mothers Against Drunk Driving connecting the rise of Uber to a drop in drunk driving accidents. But the connection isn’t so clear.

The DEA's license plate tracking program is just the latest case of surveillance gone wrong.

Where do you go for help when the people who are meant to keep you safe are the real danger?

A pioneer large-scale study suggests the common strategy to get people riding public transportation does, in fact, work.

While the roads might not take up too much space, in the land of the two-lane highway, they're a second home.

It might be a cure for road rage—or just the cause of more accidents.

And what we might be able to do to calm it down.

Evidence keeps mounting that Americans' love affair with the car, while hardly over, has entered a new phase.

New research on the why and when of truckers abusing drugs.

There are lots of factors that determine green buying patterns, but for those in the second half of life a certain level of status is attached to driving a hybrid.