Transportation

United Airlines began selling tickets Saturday night for direct flights from Great Falls to Chicago, the partners in the Great Falls Low Cost Airline Initiative announced.

Using near-real-time data collection, researchers are demonstrating a way to improve states’ ability to protect brittle roads from heavy vehicles at the end of winter.

A group of former Google engineers and Stanford researchers founded Urban Engines and released an app it calls Urban Engines Maps.

These are building blocks to technology that will allow cars to drive themselves without human intervention, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said.

This is the one we’ve been waiting for.

Driverless cars could mean a huge downsizing of the auto insurance industry, as the frequency of accidents declines and liability shifts from the driver to the vehicle’s software or automaker.

"Commissioner Jones has encouraged insurers to develop auto insurance products for TNC drivers and we are pleased to see one of the state’s largest insurers offer a product that protects drivers, passengers and pedestrians."

"We can build the hyperloop today," said Brogan BamBrogan, co-founder and chief technology officer of Hyperloop Technologies Inc. "It would just be extremely expensive."

GM isn’t really competing with ZipCar. It’s placing a bet on the future.

Despite recovery from the Great Recession, the number of miles traveled by people 16 and over is 6 percent less than its peak in 2005 (when adjusted for population growth).