A Race To Build Trains Could Mess Up The Construction Timeline For The L.A. To Vegas High-Speed Rail

A Race To Build Trains Could Mess Up The Construction Timeline For The L.A. To Vegas High-Speed Rail

Brightline’s L.A. (it’s actually not L.A. but whatever) to Las Vegas high speed rail project is slowly moving forward. Officials are eyeing a 2028 completion date, but a corporate rivalry over who gets to be the first to build the high speed trains themselves might screw things up. 2025 Honda Civic Si Is The Budget … Read more

We’ve Wasted Nearly $50 Billion On Self Driving Cars. Here’s Where That Money Should Have Gone

We’ve Wasted Nearly  Billion On Self Driving Cars. Here’s Where That Money Should Have Gone

The race for fully autonomous passenger cars is a dumb one. Businesses are playing with technology that offers massive downsides for little gain, and just end up clogging up streets with their often-confused computerized vehicles. But there’s more to the story than mere Sisyphean endeavors of trying to teach human behavior to computers: These companies … Read more

Brightline Trains Have Killed 9 People In 9 Weeks

Brightline Trains Have Killed 9 People In 9 Weeks

A Brightline train in Florida hit and killed a pedestrian this week, bringing the high speed rail line’s death toll for the year up to nine people. The latest death on the railway follows two back-to-back crashes with cars on the rail network, which sparked an inquiry from the feds into Brightline’s safety standards across … Read more