This week, President Barack Obama issued a plan to green the federal government's fleet of vehicles—specifying that by 2015, 100 percent of its vehicles purchased would be clean-energy, fuel-efficient models. Today officials confirmed that's not quite true; it applies to all but the presidential motorcade and other specialized vehicles...
When gas prices rose to dizzying heights in 2008, it threw our economy into a tailspin. The breaking point was $4 a gallon gasoline. Back then, the rise in price for gas was so quick and unexpected that it literally shocked the American consumer and thwarted our economic wellbeing. As a result, the price of gas-guzzling SUVs dropped like a rock...
Will the availability of the best-selling Honda CR-V soon be limited by ongoing troubles in Japan? The recent earthquake and tsunamis there have reduced vehicle production in Japan itself and limited the number of auto parts that can be shipped from the ravaged earthquake area to assembly plants here in the U.S. A typical new vehicle is composed...
Building better-marked crosswalks and intersections, improving sidewalks, and adding traffic-light countdown timers and clear pedestrian right-of-ways all make a significant difference in safety on foot. But these solutions come with their own significant price tags and are subject to the agreement of state and local governments, all with their...
Despite having driven 21 billion additional miles in 2010, versus 2009, Americans were safer yet on the roadways. Freshly released numbers from the federal government showing highway fatalities at their lowest rate since 1949—and, technically, "the lowest level in recorded history," as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration puts...
Yep, it's April Fool's Day. And many of our colleagues have labored long to bring you lovingly crafted parody stories. Even an automaker or two has been known to take part, though the battalions of legal beagles haunting the halls of the larger ones tend to put a stop to that. But here's our (undoubtedly incomplete) list of the ones we saw, both...
This week, President Barack Obama issued a plan to green the federal government's fleet of vehicles—specifying that by 2015, 100 percent of its vehicles purchased would be clean-energy, fuel-efficient models. Today officials confirmed that's not quite true; it applies to all but the presidential motorcade and other specialized vehicles...
When gas prices rose to dizzying heights in 2008, it threw our economy into a tailspin. The breaking point was $4 a gallon gasoline. Back then, the rise in price for gas was so quick and unexpected that it literally shocked the American consumer and thwarted our economic wellbeing. As a result, the price of gas-guzzling SUVs dropped like a rock...
Will the availability of the best-selling Honda CR-V soon be limited by ongoing troubles in Japan? The recent earthquake and tsunamis there have reduced vehicle production in Japan itself and limited the number of auto parts that can be shipped from the ravaged earthquake area to assembly plants here in the U.S. A typical new vehicle is composed...
Building better-marked crosswalks and intersections, improving sidewalks, and adding traffic-light countdown timers and clear pedestrian right-of-ways all make a significant difference in safety on foot. But these solutions come with their own significant price tags and are subject to the agreement of state and local governments, all with their...
Despite having driven 21 billion additional miles in 2010, versus 2009, Americans were safer yet on the roadways. Freshly released numbers from the federal government showing highway fatalities at their lowest rate since 1949—and, technically, "the lowest level in recorded history," as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration puts...
Yep, it's April Fool's Day. And many of our colleagues have labored long to bring you lovingly crafted parody stories. Even an automaker or two has been known to take part, though the battalions of legal beagles haunting the halls of the larger ones tend to put a stop to that. But here's our (undoubtedly incomplete) list of the ones we saw, both...
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