The Nut Behind the Wheel - 99% Invisible
In the past fifty years, the car crash death rate has dropped by nearly 80 percent in the United States. And one of the reasons for that drop has t...
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'Shared Space' Design: Road Signs Suck. What if We Got Rid of Them All? - 99% Invisible
It seems counterintuitive, but there’s evidence that getting rid of signals, signs and barriers might actually make streets a lot safer. Towns all ...
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How automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking" | Vox
In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.
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The Insane Physics of Airbags | WIRED
In a collision, a car's airbag has a tiny fraction of a second in which to inflate—which is why airbags use explosives.
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China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars - WSJ
The taste for tiny electric vehicles has become a quirky subplot in China’s clean-energy ambitions, with sales more than twice that of regular elec...
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