Fly Pods – Coming Soon to an Airport Near You?
In 1914, pilot Tony Jannus made history when he manned the first commercial flight in the United States. The trip was short – a 23 minute flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida. The passenger…
Future Transport
How Self-Driving Vehicles and Ownership Are Shaping City and Suburban Life
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on how advances in transportation technology are contributing to bigger and more sprawling cities. The premise is simple: When you want to get somewhere, you summon a car from a fleet…
Germany Opens 62-Mile Car-Free Bicycle Highway
Germany was the first nation in the world to create a high-speed highway network for cars. Now it’s joining the vanguard of countries doing the same for bikes, after opening the first three-mile stretch of…
3 Key Factors in the Future of Driving
The future of driving is shaping up to a colorful view. For more than a hundred years, automobile technology and the driving culture has been seen steady progression, but relative to where these things are…
Driverless Vehicles – Is The World Ready?
In the summer of 2015 a pretty amazing thing happened – autonomous Google cars logged over 1 million miles traversing the country. After clocking in a million miles – that’s the equivalent to around 75…
Elon Musk, Hyperloop and the Future of Mass Transit
In 2012, entrepreneur Elon Musk started talking about a new mode of transportation that he described as a “cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table.” Over the next year or…
Are Solar Roadways The Future?
How do you solve the energy crisis and the transportation problem in one whack? An inventor named Scott Brusaw has the answer: Solar roadways. Solar roadways involve taking scraps from landfills and converting it, along…
The Futuristic, Peddle-Powered Maybach DRS Prototype
Maybach recently released its Maybach DRS (Den-Riki-Sha), a vehicle designed with the future of automotive technology in mind. Designed by Maybach’s team consisting of Yong Won Lee, Toru Nakano, Teck-Koun Kim, Masahide Yamada, Daniel Schlapp,…
High-Speed Rail May be Solution to Transportation Woes
With growing gas prices and the worst economic crisis in 60 years, many are wondering what the solution to transportation issues in the U.S. may be. Increased traffic congestion is a glaring sign that something…
Futuristic Chinese Bus Concept Aims To Improve Public Transit
China is the world’s most populous country. It’s also the world’s second biggest economic superpower having just recently surpassed Japan. When you put the two together it’s not hard to see that China is growing…
