Transportation

On Tuesday, Delta announced that Salt Lake City will become the airline’s eighth stop from London’s Heathrow Airport, and the only nonstop connection between the Mountain West and the United Kingdom.

Skeptics tend to view Elon Musk’s proposed "hyperloop" high-speed transportation system as a beautiful dream, unlikely to become real.

But apparently, it’s a dream many share.

Uber expects its service to be so inexpensive and ubiquitous as to make car ownership obsolete. Such ambitious plans could make its disruption of the taxi industry look quaint in comparison.

It’s going to be a brave, brave new world…

The city of Davis, California, a college town with extremely high commute mode share for bikes, made history last week as the first U.S. city to build a protected intersection for bikes.

oday’s "BWest Byte" is $779 million, for the amount of money the British government is committing over the next five years to construct roads that will wirelessly charge electric cars as they drive.

"The car used to be the symbol of American freedom. Now it’s like this, and a car is like owning a $9,000 ball and chain, because you have $9,000 in expenses on your car every year."

"We would be surprised if Tesla did not share formalized business plans on shared mobility within the next 12 to 18 months," he writes in a note to investors. "This could potentially be followed by commercial introduction in 2018."

The move would represent a big leap beyond making smartphones and computers. Apple Senior Vice President Jeff Williams has echoed the sentiments of many in the tech industry by calling the automobile "the ultimate mobile device."

Self-driving cars are jut around the corner, and they have the potential to save owners on insurance, traffic tickets, and fuel.