I’m starting to think that Elon Musk gets his newest ideas on automotive and travel innovations based entirely on whatever is annoying him that day. And, apparently, traffic jams and getting stuck behind trucks were…
For a long time the idea of flying cars have been a part of society’s shared vision of future transportation. From the flying cars of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons to Marty McFly’s plutonium enhanced…
In 1831, the DeWitt Clinton locomotive, built by the West Point Foundry in New York, made its first test run for a passenger railway in the United States. Nearly 200 years later, we’re finally ready…
Australia’s World Solar Challenge is underway once again. The race takes place from Darwin to Adelaide but the 1,800 road trip isn’t one people will be taking in comfort. In fact, many of the cars…
If the rise of ‘Glamping‘ is any indication, luxury is fast becoming the new normal. As people look for ways to connect with nature without giving up their creature comforts, a whole new generation of…
In his continuing effort to become a real life Tony Start, Elon Musk has recently unveiled plans for a passenger rocket that can take anyone from one part of the world to another in around…
While technologies that have increased fuel efficiency have grown by leaps and bounds, they still rely on fossil fuels. Oil is not a renewable source and, more to the point, it’s become clear that there…
Can Self Driving Trucks Replace Long Haul Drivers? (Wired) Man vs Machine has moved beyond who can beat who in a chess game or who can solve a Rubik’s cube the fastest. Now that self-driving…
Computer aided Virtual Reality has been around since the late 1960s and its debut was less than promising. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted device (HMD) that a person could…
Real world auto innovations have become so novel and futuristic that it’s easy to understand why people thought the Chinese straddling-bus idea was legit. The premise was simple and, in a market desperate for solutions…
