Boatcar, Traveling Legs, and Other Innovations
We asked the students of 826 in Los Angeles to imagine how we might get around in the future. Here’s what they came up with.
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We asked the students of 826 in Los Angeles to imagine how we might get around in the future. Here’s what they came up with.
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The Transport of Future Past
We have built ourselves into a mess. An over-abundance of demand for personal mobility is rapidly draining our supply of fossil fuels. How did we get here? One part of the answer lies with a group of men and women who, a half century ago and more put into the public record their ideas about what our future world should look... 179
Space Oddity
We called a licensed Virgin Galactic travel agent to answer our burning questions about the company's pioneering space-tourism trips.
GOOD: Let’s say I wanted to go into space—there are some things I’d want to know. For starters, how high will I go?
VIRGIN: The plane elevates 60,000 feet into space. Then... 13
The Future Is Wow
What if the techy transportation of sci-fi movies isn’t as far-fetched as it seems?
We asked Seth Shostak, scientist and film consultant, to rate them on a scale of 1 (“dream on”) to 10 (“totally feasible”). Bring on the levitating cars!
Alien
Technology: Placing... 31
Build a Better Bike
If your commute is too long for pedal power, just add a little juice to your ride.
By Jason Cozens, as told to GOOD
I’ve been an on-and-off bike commuter for about seven years. I enjoyed riding and being outside—not being confined inside a car—but I always showed up to work covered in sweat and beat... 24
Buying the Best Bike For You
A bike novice and a bike nerd talk cycling options.
GOOD: I figured since you live in Portland, you must know everything there is to know about bikes. Can you help me pick one?
ZACH DUNDAS: Ah, Portland’s reputation as the urban cyclist’s paradise precedes it, I see. Well, it is a pretty great bike... 5
How to Choose the Right Alternative-fuel Car for You
Click above to launch our handy flowchart, "How To Choose the Right Alternative-Fuel Car For You."
More Burning Questions About Alternative Fuel Vehicles:
Whatever happened to hydrogen?
The idea is great: Take the most abundant element in the universe, turn it silently into... 9
Call In the Designers
In any field, designers have to synthesize competing interests to come to an elegant solution. Imagine what they could do to transportation.
Centuries of artificially cheap energy have established an expectation of ubiquitous personal mobility and freight transportation in the developed economies of the world. This... 17
Gallons to Go
Knowing your car’s miles per gallon isn’t going to get you very far.
Last summer, Richard Larrick and Jack Soll, professors at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, published a paper arguing that Americans did not understand how fuel efficiency works. They found that most people assumed that improving a car’s miles per gallon from 25 mpg to 50... 16
How To Double Your Car’s Fuel Economy Without Spending Any Money
Hypermiling—the art of beating the fuel rating given to your car by the Environmental Protection Agency—has gone from a fringe hobby to a mainstream movement, thanks largely to recent high gas prices and concerns about the climate. Bolstered by the success of hybrid cars, hypermilers have been gathering in... 
