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If this electric car had caught on in 1932, our roadways would have looked very different. Instead of little boxes sitting on four wheels, the roads might have been filled with giant hamster wheels that rolled over us as we drove. More »
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If your car is a diesel, it will run. Liquid hydrogen, the fuel that powered the space shuttle's main engines, could work, says Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But keeping hydrogen liquid requires maintaining it at a temperature below about –432°F. Storing it in a garage would be tricky, as would keeping it from freezing the engine. More »
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Architect Tiago Barras has seen the future of public roadways, and said future resembles a moonshine-fueled car chase. As part of his whimsical High-Speed Car Ramp design, the designer suggests adding a jump ramp to Lisbon's Segunda Circular highway. More »
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Cars have been outfitted with biometric readers like fingerprint scanners and voice recognition for years, but chances are you've never seen an anti-theft system quite like this: we now have car seat that can actually identify you by the subtle curves of your hindparts. More »
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You know how much gas is in your car, your average miles per gallon, and your road speed. And you want to get from your home to your destination as quickly as possible, as efficiently as possible. Does speeding actually work? More »
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Oh, the weird world of NASA automotives. Here's an inside look at the Astrovan — a.k.a. the Crew Transport Vehicle — that ferries astronauts at Kennedy Space Center to the launch pad. Between this and the Dodge Charger, you have enough material for a weekly drama about astronauts entering illicit street-racing matches to fund future missions. I'd call it The Right and The Stuff, followed by its inevitable sequel, Right And Stuff. More »
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Burning Man 2011 was certainly surfeit with wacky conveyances. There's no way this Dalek art car is street legal, but hey, true Daleks are always riding dirty. More »
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As if the Exige 270E Tri-fuel sports car wasn't expensive enough, the engineers over at Lotus have gone ahead and made it run on three of the most expensive vices on the planet. That's right: you can fuel this car with chocolate, cheese, and wine. More »
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Transformers lied to you — an intelligent car that can transform itself only has one idea in mind: Pure, delicious slaughter. The new film Super Hybrid tells the truth about smart cars. More »
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According to data collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, August is the most dangerous month of the year to be a U.S. motorist. But here's some promising news for the future: researchers have created a device that allows people to control their brakes just by thinking about it. In The Journal of Neural Engineering, scientists offer evidence that "mind-reading" technologies can help you slam on the brakes at the speed of thought, and avoid accidents. More »
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A set photo from Pittsburgh includes the new Batmobile and the Batpod (covered with a tarp) being brought to the set of the Dark Knight Rises. At first glance, the new Batmobile doesn't look too different from the Tumbler. More »
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In a huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks - but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run. More »
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Some sciences prove that everything you know is wrong. Physics doesn't. It just proves that everything you know is relative. A good example of this is the motion of the wheel. Although it was one of humankind's earliest machines, it still has some tricks up its sleeve. More »
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Ah, the Batmobile. Bruce Wayne's jalopy has gone through oodles of iterations ranging from Adam West his-and-his windshields to Christian Bale's wheeled samurai empanada. But on some occasions, the Batmobile won't suffice. Here are the unsung vehicles of comics. More »
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Australian engineer Chris Malloy has spent his spare money and time building a flying motorcycle he calls the Hoverbike. The Imperial Speeder Bike-like bike could reach 10,000 feet and fly 170 mph when finished. Read more about it, and check out more pictures, via Jalopnik! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5810429&view=rss&microfeed=true No matter how bleak the future is, movies have taught us the cars will still be awesome. Here are the ten cars you said were the coolest futuristic movie cars of all time. [Jalopnik] More »
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If you've been feeling deprived of the sight of Nathan Fillion aboard a space buggy, then here's an awesome picture of Captain Tightpants showing off the prototype of a new three-wheeled electric car. More »
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Machinists dreamed up the first screw-propelled vehicle in 1868. Since then other prototypes have popped up for use in war, in farming, in industry, and dare I say it? In our hearts. More »
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This quirky movie from the 1940s showcases such strange automobiles as the Davis Three-Wheeler. More »
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One of the many special products offered to car owners to allow them to get more bang for their buck is nitrogen gas to fill their tires. But tires are tires. As long as they're not filled with gravel or anything that can explode, what difference could the gas inside them make? Supposedly, a lot. Let's examine the evidence. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5766767&view=rss&microfeed=true It's not quite Professor Xavier-level mind control, but researchers at AutoNOMOS Labs in Germany have developed a system that drives a vehicle by reading a person's brain waves. So this is what it feels like to watch the future. [Jalopnik] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5764272&view=rss&microfeed=true Don't you hate it when you bring your General Lee into the body shop and it comes out with a part off of Ecto 1? This happens all the time in Brandon Ortwein's imaginary life. Click through for more. [Jalopnik] More »
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It starts when you're young. In fact, it's encouraged when you're young. You're given stuffed animals or little dolls. You're asked to name things around your house. Things are explained to you in terms of 'likes' and 'dislikes'. For example, I was told that the toilet dislikes having all my clothes flushed down it - apparently, that makes it 'sick'. The world is sketched out for you in terms of relationships, and inanimate objects have relationships as readily as humans do. More »
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Risk compensation is irony encapsulated; the more measures that are taken to ensure people's safety, the more dangerously people will act to make up for it. Perhaps people are just designed to seek a certain level of risk. More »
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Driving a high-altitude ER-2 aircraft for NASA may sound like a glamorous gig, but it pales in comparison to cruising around in the organization's souped-up Dodge Charger. From NASA: More »
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In 1925, several American highway associations drafted up designs for a six-lane highway running from NYC to Washington DC. This doesn't sound controversial, but they also decided to plop down the road adjacent to the White House and Capitol. More »
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As controversial as Robert Moses' automobile-heavy redesign of New York City was, none of his projects matched the sheer insanity of this skyscraper-sized highway proposed by one-time NYC health commissioner Dr. John A. Harriss in 1930. More »
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For those readers aspiring to be nefarious peons in a supervillain organization, this vintage Berliet military truck emblazoned with the HYDRA insignia from Captain America: The First Avenger should suffice nicely. Several HYDRA trucks are being auctioned off in March. More »
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Enjoy being in cars but hate the hassle of watching the road and holding the steering wheel? The road train autopilot system could bring us cavalcades of remotely driven cars. More »
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Old issues of Popular Science are a rich repository of gonzo, never-was transportation. Ogle such curious conveyances as the skiing cubicle, the tuba-equipped jungle cruiser, and a truck with a steam engine in every wheel. More »
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Now you can get lucky in the backseat of the Millennium Falcon, with this decal. Just think of the annoying quotation potential! We'll get you started: "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts." [Buzzfeed] More »
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The latest trailer for Nic Cage's undead car movie, Drive Angry, is delivering a 3-D hatchet to your face. Watch Cage blow up cars and light things on fire, on a mission to save his grandkid from the devil. More »
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This hopeful illustration from the December 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics predicted that future fellows and flappers would fly around in this highfalutin flivver. Look out your window. I see no half-crop-duster-half-jalopies whizzing around. Sorry, readers of 1930. More »
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A 10-day traffic jam may be clogging the streets of Beijing, but traffic around the world continues to toot along - or not. Take a peek at our video gallery of traffic scenes around the world, from Lagos to Saskatoon. More »
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The HumanCar is the souped-up, street legal version of an old railroad handcar. The four-seater can reach 60 mph when all four passengers are cranking - and there's an electric battery to keep it going when you need a break. More »
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This device from a 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics seems comically impractical nowadays, but back then such circumspection was warranted. After all, the automobile was (gasp!) "the most dangerous article in America" back then. [Modern Mechanix] More »
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We may be a little obsessed with Nic Cage's insane-sounding devil-in-a-car flick Drive Angry. And these brand-new movie stills aren't helping calm down about screaming out of Hell with Cage, riding shotgun! More »
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I don't care if this rig isn't street legal. If I had this 1989 Back to the Future Part II battery-operated car, I'd drive it to work everyday like I was a time-traveling Shriner or something. More »
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Back in the 1970s, if you didn't have Bilbo Baggins airbrushed onto the side of your Econoline by your neighborhood Frank Frazetta wannabe, then it was time to pull your rig off the road. These wheels were made for wizarding, brah. More »
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Last night, a car full of zombies flipped over on I-84 near Portland, Oregon. The zombies (who were just flesh-and-blood folks going to a party) were unharmed, but authorities initially mistook their undead costumes for real wounds. More »
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