“A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas.”
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He Wants a New Start. So He Is Taking the Hardest Driving Test in the World.
“In a world of GPS and car-hailing apps, some Londoners still want to drive a traditional black cab. First, they must memorize thousands of city streets.”
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Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
“The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?”
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The Making of a Monster
“Centuries ago it was an idyllic earthen path. Today’s it’s the most dangerous road for cyclists in America.”
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Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out
“There is no scientific way to tell if you’re stoned behind the wheel. That’s a problem for police—and you. One company is aiming to fix that.”
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The Ditch
“I might be a bilingual journalist, the holder of a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne, but navigating the world remained something he could do that I could not.”
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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs
“We basically have people from two worlds, neither of which has ever talked to each other.” At Starsky Robotics, a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, truck drivers and software engineers work side by side.
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Driving America
“Liberated by technology and disillusioned of the road-trip myth, the latter-day road tripper must face directly the fact that traveling in itself is phenomenally boring.”