Our roads are have been transformed into a revenue generating control grid. And this is just yet another example of how government feels the need to constantly watch, monitor, track and regulate everything that we do.
We weren't surprised this summer when Hennessey Performance Engineering, the Texas tuning house that makes awesome cars even more awesome, turned its attention to the new 2014 Corvette Stingray.
If things get bad, you will probably want to stay put – if where you are when things go bad is a relatively safe area. But what if you need to bug out? And how about staying mobile in a S hitting the F scenario?
Almost everything we own and use, at some point, travels to us by container ship, through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almost nothing about. Journalist Rose George tours us through the world of shipping, the underpinn
Since the episode last night of Doomsday Preppers had a guy modifying an old school bus to be his battle wagon after the destruction caused by of an F5 tornado, I thought I would share this article showing other options you might consider.
A Canadian firm by the name of Dubuc Super Light Car has come out with a kit car that offers fans of performance driving an affordable and lightweight sports model.
Nürburgring times are the yardstick that all new performance cars are measured. A lap under 10 minutes is good. Anything under eight minutes is astounding. But the new benchmark for the next generation of hybrid hypercars is seven minutes.
Never ones to turn down a chance to sing about vehicles, we can’t help but take a little inspiration from Zager and Evans: "In the year 2025, if man is still alive, if race cars can survive, what will we find?" The Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challe
"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport," argues Enrique Peñalosa. In this spirited talk, the former mayor of Bogotá shares some of the tactics he used to change the transport
At car shows and in TV commercials, automakers like to brag about their “radical engineering.” But there’s nothing radical about the automotive business.
Back in 2009, MIT's SENSEable City team unveiled its Copenhagen Wheel prototype. In a nutshell, it's a self-contained electrically-powered rear bicycle wheel that can be installed on any regular bike, instantly turning it into an e-bike.
The product, named the RF Safe-stop, works by sending an RF pulse to a car at up to 165 feet away. The pulse “confuses” the car’s electronic systems, which made the “dashboard warning lights and dial erratic.” The engine then stalls, and the
This is Der Zeisel, the tank tread equipped wheelchair that can conquer just about anything mother nature can dish out. In German, Der Zeisel means "the ground squirrel" and its operators just might feel like they're zipping about just like a squirre
A commuter train that derailed over the weekend, killing 4 passengers, was hurtling at 82 mph as it entered a 30 mph curve, a federal investigator said. But whether the wreck was the result of human error or mechanical trouble was unclear,
A strange concept car recently appeared at China's Guangzhou Auto Show. Designed to be fully autonomous, the vehicle boasts swiveling front seats, massive gullwing doors, and a dashboard heavily populated with screens. It also has a unique sort of sa