All the stories tagged with: Transportation
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Might Be One Test Flight Away From Being Ungrounded
03/25/2013, January was when the global fleet of 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliners was grounded after a couple of incidents that lead to emergency landings and smoke filling up in the cockpit. All of that had been due to an issue with [...]
UK Rail Stations Get Free Wi-Fi Thanks To Microsoft’s Deal With The Cloud
03/25/2013, Many rail stations in the UK already offer free Wi-Fi to passengers, though the service is generally limited up to 15 minutes of usage. Currently there are 50 London Overground stations that offer free Wi-Fi for 60 minutes, with 6 [...]
FAA Might Remove Reading Device Restriction For Passengers Later This Year
03/24/2013, As it currently stands, passengers on commercial flights are required to shut down their electronic devices before takeoff and landing. The airlines say that these devices may cause interference with the avionics of the aircraft. There’s no concrete proof of [...]
American Airlines Shows Off Its iPad Equipped Planes
03/22/2013, Back in 2011 we reported that American Airlines was considering replacing their flight bags with iPads, ultimately saving a ton of weight while keeping things modern. Just to give you an idea, American Airlines has calculated that each flight bag [...]
Bike Headlight Used To Project Your Speed Limit
03/21/2013, Riding a bicycle can be a freeing way to travel as you don’t have to worry about rising gas prices or finding a parking spot once you arrive at your destination as a tree and a lock can get the [...]
FireFly Shell Ensures Cyclists Remain Dry As A Bone
03/20/2013, Now this is something that you do not see every day – the FireFly is a recumbent tricycle which comes with its very own dome that has LED lighting within, ensuring that you remain nice and dry even when it [...]
Detroit Electric Intends To Roll Out A Battery Powered Sports Car
03/20/2013, Detroit Electric, a company that has an eye (or rather, both eyes) cast deep into the future, has just announced that they intend to come up with a working battery-powered sports car this coming August. Yes sir, apparently, they will [...]
BMW Unveils Its Electric Bike Called Cruise
03/18/2013, BMW is a market leader in luxury and high performance cars. However, fuel hungry cars are not the only thing that BMW makes. The company has formally cruised in to the electric bike market with their latest offering, the Cruise [...]
ORIGOSafe Hopes To Make Our Roads Safer
03/18/2013, Texting and driving can be a dangerously potent mix, as your attention is directed to whoever is messaging you at that point in time, with your brain taking some time off from processing information on the road in order to [...]
Volkswagen E-Up Concept Now Realized
03/15/2013, The Volkswagen E-Up was nothing but a concept just four years ago, and now the German car company has decided to have it “grow up” and enter production, where the small electric vehicle is touted to be launched at the [...]
American Drivers Out-text European Motorists
03/14/2013, We all know that we should not be using our phones while we drive, and since the explosion of smartphones happened some years back, it has led to an even greater proliferation of such devices, so much so that using [...]
Scosche controlFREQ Car Stereo Receiver
03/14/2013, Scosche has just announced a spanking new controlFREQ car stereo receiver as well as an accompanying app which will be able to transform the majority of smartphones out there into a touchscreen remote control. Not only that, it will also [...]
Boeing Receives OK To Test New 787 Battery
03/12/2013, The Boeing 787 Dreamliner that has been grounded (causing many pilots who were specially trained to fly this technologically advanced plane to hang out at home and being an irritant to their wives) because of a battery issue has yet [...]
