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Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
Around midnight on June 28, Calvin Hu was driving with his girlfriend near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park when he…
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Traffic Fatalities Jump as Drivers Increasingly Must Share the Road
Preliminary figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that last year there were 42,915 traffic fatalities in the…
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Grocery Apps Hoped to Win Over Amsterdam. Then Things Turned Sour
In May 2021, grocery delivery company Zapp moved into a small garage, squashed between red brick apartment buildings on a…
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The Feds Plan to Reduce Roadway Deaths—With Smarter Road Design
Statistics help tell stories, and one often touted by technologists and engineers and police officers and even the federal government…
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The US Is Gently Discouraging States From Building New Highways
Highways are not great for the planet. Their smooth, wide, inviting lanes have helped make transportation the largest source of…
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The Pandemic Put an End to Rush Hour. What Happens Now?
Before everything got weird and terrible, there were these things called rush hours. Between, say, 6 am and 10 am,…
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This Arcane Manual Could Pave the Way to More Human-Friendly Cities
There’s a reason that a stop sign in Sheboygan looks like a stop sign in Seattle. There’s a reason that…
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When Driving Is (Partially) Automated, People Drive More
Researchers, industry executives, and government officials have long puzzled over how self-driving cars might change the planet. If you could…
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The Pandemic Prompts Cities to Rethink the Parking Spot
Officials in Charleston, South Carolina, have been thinking about what to do about parking for close to a decade, says…
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Traffic Safety Trends to Keep an Eye On in 2021
More than 35,000 people a year are killed, and some three million are injured, in vehicle-related crashes in the United…
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