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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here
Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner
Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving?
People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit
TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable
Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic
100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback
BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric
Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End
Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline
Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet
Rocket Racing League Ready To Launch
Toyota Announces the Winglet, Wannabe Segway Killer
Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid
FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade
New X-Prize for Fuel Efficient Cars Announced
Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs
Aquaduct Bike Purifies Water As You Pedal
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System
China Sets Sights On Rail Record
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers
DIY Hybrid Car Kit
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids
Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling?
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter
Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring
GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018
Human-Powered Vehicle Speed Competition
Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson
It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane
JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners
Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia
Latest "Green" Power Generation — Your Feet
MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams
Maglev On the Drawing Boards
Massachusetts Sues to Halt Defcon Subway Hacking Talk
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test
New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo
Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says
Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers
Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn
Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing
Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store
Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War
The SUV Is Dethroned
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle
Underground Freight Networks
Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars
Wearable Motorcycle Design
A Robotic Taxi Named robuCAB
Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack
Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete
Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes
High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries
Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams
Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor
The Age of the Airship Returns?
Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive
Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation
Wave Powered Boat to Sail From Hawaii to Japan
SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared
Air Traffic Controller Lands Stricken Plane By SMS
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada
Bird Navigation Based On Quantum Zeno Effect
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
Boeing-Skyhook Airship Faces Technical Challenges
British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps
Buses as Mobile Sensing Platforms?
Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed
Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC
EU Reserves a Frequency For Talking Cars
Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg
Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually
GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers
GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids
GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court
Google Creates Tour de France Video Maps
Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors
Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel
In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress
International Field Engineer Travel Tips?
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars
Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code
Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel
Kite-Powered Ship Launched
MIT Offers City Car for the Masses
Mapping America's Deadliest Roads
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015
Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car
Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet
Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar
NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive
NASA Releases Cryptic Airline Safety Data
NASA Testing Lunar Rovers In Moses Lake, WA
NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
New ATC System To Rely On AT&T Cell Towers
New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone
New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves
Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time
Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading
Pentagon Urges Space-Based Solar Power
Practical Jetpack Available "Soon"
Redesigned, Bulkier Honda Insight to Challenge Prius
Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane
Road Coloring Problem Solved
Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies
Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing
Smart Parking Spaces In San Francisco
Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record
Spider-Like Catamaran Travels 5,000 Miles On One Tank
Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism
Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars
Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways
VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid
WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates
Wind-Powered "Greenbird" Seeks Land-Speed Record
World Human Powered Boat Record Broken
Zeppelins Over California
Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service
Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets
Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes
Cellphones to Monitor Highway Traffic
How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected
Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission?
Japan to Launch Maglev Trains by 2025
Li-Ion Batteries Hit Final R&D Phase for Plug-in Cars
MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car
Nanostructured Li-ion Batteries for Electric Cars
Specs For the New KITT
Airport Security Prize Announced
Michigan Wins 2008 North American Solar Challenge
Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting
Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX
NASA Spends $25M On Unmanned Planes, Awards Aviation Prizes
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20%
Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train
Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel
Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions
Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks
Chrysler To Offer Wireless Internet In 2009 Models
Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station
Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing
Plane Simple Truth
Terminal Chaos
VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG
Where Are the Flying Cars?
Big Rigs Go High Tech
Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize
Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports
Researchers Test Drive Bus With Automated Steering
TSA Evaluating Laptop Bags
Transit Authority Puts Confidential White Paper Into Public Domain
GASP! Wireless iPod headphones cause Qantas plunge
Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash