Oakland Thwarts Copper Thieves With Novel Stop Sign Technology

Oakland Thwarts Copper Thieves With Novel Stop Sign Technology

Screenshot: KPIX City officials in Oakland, California decided to replace a traffic light at an intersection with stop signs last week. This decision wasn’t part of some urbanist initiative to calm traffic; the city couldn’t keep the light functional. The Chevy Colorado’s Headlight Controls Are Deeply Frustrating And I Need To Yell About Them Local … Read more

Putting Pedestrians First On New York City’s Streets Saved Medicaid $90 Million In Five Years

Putting Pedestrians First On New York City’s Streets Saved Medicaid  Million In Five Years

The aftermath of a deadly crash that took place in the Bronx last monthPhoto: New York Daily News / Contributor (Getty Images) After decades of dedicating city streets to ensuring drivers can get anywhere they want to go as fast and conveniently as possible, cities around the country have slowly started to realize that’s not … Read more

Guardrails Aren’t Designed To Work On Giant EVs: Study

Guardrails Aren’t Designed To Work On Giant EVs: Study

EVs are really heavy, and neither America’s drivers, nor the vital infrastructure they drive on, are ready for the chaos those big cars will bring. Experts are now especially worried the nation’s guardrails won’t hold up to the weight of EVs in a crash. We’re Driving the 2024 Honda Prologue, What Do You Want to … Read more

Los Angeles Made A Plan To Stop Traffic Deaths By 2025, But They’ve Doubled Instead

Los Angeles Made A Plan To Stop Traffic Deaths By 2025, But They’ve Doubled Instead

More people were killed in traffic collisions on the streets of Los Angeles in 2023 than were murdered. The city pledged in 2015 to end driving and pedestrian deaths before 2025, and after nine years of doing basically nothing, the city just keeps setting new fatality records year after year. An astonishing 337 Los Angelinos … Read more

Two pollution tests must for vehicles with flex fuel option

Two pollution tests must for vehicles with flex fuel option

All bi-fuel vehicles with flex fuel option will have to undergo tests for both gaseous pollutants as well as particulate mass and number when seeking vehicle type approval under BS VI emission norms. However, hydrogen-run vehicles will have to undergo tests only for emissions of nitrogen oxide, the ministry of road transport and highways said … Read more

Snowstorm Traps 1,000 Vehicles On Swedish Highway For Up To 20 Hours

Snowstorm Traps 1,000 Vehicles On Swedish Highway For Up To 20 Hours

Photo: Johan Nilsson/ TT / TT News Agency / AFP (Getty Images) There have been 1,000 vehicles trapped on a major highway in southern Sweden over the past day as a snowstorm made its way across the Nordic country. Snowdrifts slammed a 20-mile portion of the E22 between Horby and Kristianstad. According to the BBC, … Read more

Tata Motors: Tata Motors bags order for 1,350 bus chassis from UP State Road Transport Corporation

Tata Motors: Tata Motors bags order for 1,350 bus chassis from UP State Road Transport Corporation

Automaker giant Tata Motors on Tuesday announced that it has bagged an order to supply 1,350 units of diesel bus chassis from the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. The order is for the company’s Tata LPO 1618 diesel bus chassis that has been developed for intercity and long-distance travel, the company said in a … Read more