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New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested
Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada
Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator
Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents
Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets
FCC/DOT Want High-Tech Cure For Distracted Driving
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving
A Peek At DHS's Files On You
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car
Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC
Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid
TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
Hackers Broke Into FAA Air Traffic Control Systems
Reaction Engines plan Mach 5 Airliner
"Roadable Aircraft" Moving Towards Launch
$2500 Tata Nano Car Unveiled in India
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
Survey Finds Airport Wi-Fi More Important Than Food
TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App
UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network
Flying Car Ready To Take Off
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers
Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here
Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving?
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies
London's Oystercard Gets New Contract, But Same Suppliers
Flying Car Flies From London To Africa
Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car
Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators
No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says
The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old
Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet
1000-mph Car Planned
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable
Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation
First Flight of Jet Powered By Algae-Fuel
Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight
Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney
Lexus To Start Spamming Car Buyers In Their Cars
GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt
Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car
Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker
Segway, GM Partner On Two-Wheeled Electric Car
Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks
Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains
People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars
American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes
Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities
Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's
The World's Heaviest Robot
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car
China Sets Sights On Rail Record
Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling?
Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US
Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring
Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet
The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes
Human Exoskeletons Getting Closer
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters
Plug-in Hybrids May Not Go Mainstream, Toyota Says
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo
"Road Trains" Ready To Roll
Appeal For Commuter GPS Logs To Aid Electric Cars
Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit
No Hand-Held Devices In Ontario Cars
UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger"
What Happened To the Bay Bridge?
February Deadline For Emergency Beacons Approaches
Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons
Aquaduct Bike Purifies Water As You Pedal
Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter
Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do
Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
The Lightning Hybrid and the Inizio EV
Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial
Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water
SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures
BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric
Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean
Progress On Electric Cars
Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson
Latest "Green" Power Generation — Your Feet
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test
Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn
Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447?
Human-Powered Vehicle Speed Competition
Tickets On Sale In Sweden For Space Tourism, Starting In 2012
"Subhuman Project" Human Powered Submarine
US Agency Blocked Cellphone / Driving Safety Study
Maglev On the Drawing Boards
Australia Developing Massive Electric Vehicle Grid
Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property
Funding For Automotive Fuel Cells Cut
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle
Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving
14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut
"Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
"Right To Repair" Bill Advances In Massachusetts
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
'09 Malibu Vs. '59 Bel Air Crash Test
(Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing?
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year
100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback
12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports
125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich
220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona
6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared
A Hypothesis On Segway Hate
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
Air Traffic Controller Lands Stricken Plane By SMS
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada
Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs
Armadillo Aerospace Flight Paves Way For Science Payloads
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System
Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars
Bird Navigation Based On Quantum Zeno Effect
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
Boeing-Skyhook Airship Faces Technical Challenges
Brain Scanning May Be Used In EU Security Checks
Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet?
Buses as Mobile Sensing Platforms?
Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA
California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections
Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?
Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty
Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA
Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City
Computer-Controlled Cargo Sailing Vessels Go Slow, Frugal
Computers Key To Air France Crash
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End
Cornell Grad Students Go Ballooning (Again)
Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers
DIY Hybrid Car Kit
Do We Need Running Shoes To Run?
Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed
Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC
Dymaxion Car Being Restored
EU Reserves a Frequency For Talking Cars
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids
Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start
Europe's Biggest Amateur Rocket Completes Test-Firing
Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker
Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving
Flapping NAV Performs Controlled Hovering Flight
For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes
For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices
Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta
GM Researching Windshields For Old Drivers
GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018
GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company
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
Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled
Hackable In-Car GPS Unit?
Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco
Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars
Honda's Answer To the Segway
Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel
In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress
India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months
International Field Engineer Travel Tips?
Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet
It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane
JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight
Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code
Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel
Kite-Powered Ship Launched
Laptop Fires On Airplanes
Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug
Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia
Last Sky Commuter For Sale On eBay
Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software
MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models
MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic Jams
Mapping America's Deadliest Roads