Transportation

"If we’re right, nobody’s going to borrow money to buy a car again."

The slow driving experience may have been enough to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance driven in a production electric car on a single charge.

The safety board said the Uber car’s computer system spotted 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg pushing a bicycle across a road at night in Tempe, Ariz., six seconds before impact.

The days when cars could drive unhindered through central Madrid are coming to a close.

"Montana is receiving $12.6 million as part of the Volkswagen settlement. A smart use of those funds would be to consider the feasibility of adding more electric buses and charging infrastructure – anything to promote electric vehicle usage in individual cars or mass transit."

"Smart pavement is a factory-produced pavement system that transforms the road into a sensor, data and connectivity network for next-generation vehicles."

BP announced Tuesday it plans to invest $20 million in StoreDot, an Israeli startup that claims to offer 5-minute electric-vehicle charging with a new generation of lithium-ion batteries.

Considering the number of well-resourced entities putting money and time towards the effort, the 53% of Americans polled here might not be far off.

As cars start to drive themselves, we have some ideas for how urban planners of the future might reimagine those outdated layouts–and transform the city into a joyful mess of throughways and byways optimized not for cars but for people.

Far too many pedestrians are dying on our most heavily traveled streets. They don’t have to.