Expect the Unexpected: How to Test Autonomous Cars for Real-World Situations
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.
Driving
Driving on 4/20 Is Hazardous for Your Health
Deadly car crashes are 12 percent more likely on April 20th, and it doesn't take a genius to guess why.
Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban on Women Driving
The decision comes eight months after women were first able to run and vote in local elections.
Five Ways You Can Help Mitigate Climate Change
A number of little actions can go a long way.
The Trucking Subculture of Dekotora
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.
Can a Negative Outlook Create a Dangerous Driver?
A Chinese study finds people who pay more attention to what's bad about the world also get in more accidents.
The Weird Ways People React to Driving Bans
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 Future of Work: But What Will Humans Do?
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.
Smartwatches Do Almost Everything—Except Make You Drive Better
One California lawyer thinks that the tech companies that make them should spend a whole lot of money reminding drivers of that fact.
The Racial Imbalance in Traffic Stops Persists
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.
Why Taxis Can Never Compete With Uber
For many drivers and riders, the convenience that ride-sharing offers is simply too tough to pass up.
Why We Rage on the Roads—and How to Stop
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.
Why Does the Gas Station Across the Street Have Higher Prices?
A combination of location, credit card fees, and brand: basically, nothing worth paying for.
Uber Claims Credit for Drop in Drunk Driving Accidents. But Where's the Evidence?
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.
Why Is the DEA Tracking License Plates?
The DEA's license plate tracking program is just the latest case of surveillance gone wrong.
When Your Stalker Is a Cop
Where do you go for help when the people who are meant to keep you safe are the real danger?
Does Expensive Parking Really Discourage City Driving?
A pioneer large-scale study suggests the common strategy to get people riding public transportation does, in fact, work.
2 Lanes, 1 Life: The America Far From the Freeway
While the roads might not take up too much space, in the land of the two-lane highway, they're a second home.
Why Don't Cars Have a 'Sorry' Signal?
It might be a cure for road rage—or just the cause of more accidents.
The Psychology and Biology of Road Rage
And what we might be able to do to calm it down.
We're Buying Fewer Cars, Driving Fewer Miles—and Buying Less Gas
Evidence keeps mounting that Americans' love affair with the car, while hardly over, has entered a new phase.
Late Nights, Long Drives, and Too Much Speed
New research on the why and when of truckers abusing drugs.
What’s Cool for Old People? A Hybrid
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.
Distracted Driving Laws Are Expanding, But Many Still Miss the Point
(The point is the limits of mental multitasking.)