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• News

  

  Is a Plane More Fuel Efficient Than a Prius?

  What's the most efficient way to get around? Planes might burn a lot of fuel, but they also are filled with people, making each gallon go a lot...

  by GOOD, Robert A. Di Ieso, Jr. 1

• News

  

  Toyota Sells 2 Millionth Prius; Americans Still Buy Trucks

  The American market for trucks is still vastly bigger than the global market for the Prius. Does that need to change?

  by Patrick James +

• Road Map to Harmony

  

  Spinning a Faster Web

  A technology that is speeding up the developing world's internet connections. Internet connections in the developing world are getting a boost...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Culture

  

  The Speed Writing Movement

  Tina Brown's new imprint will focus on fast books. Can they stack up? Speed writing seems to be the flavor of the week. First we were graced...

  by Anne Trubek +

• News

  

  Toyota's Showdown: The Company is Calling the Runaway Prius Owner's Bluff

  What happened to the customer always being right? Toyota has other ideas, since it issued a broadside late Monday challenging the account...

  by Mother Nature Network +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Safe At Any Speed

  Car makers have, apparently, imagined building an injury-proof car-one that would keep passengers unharmed in any crash-for a while now. We didn't...

  by Andrew Price +

• News

  

  Fast Facts About Speeding Tickets

  And here's an interesting collection of facts about speeding tickets from Autoblog:Do you think the number of tickets goes up when economic growth...

  by Andrew Price 6

• News

  

  Faster than Light: Separating Fiction from Reality

  Warp six, Mr. Scott. This is the seventh part in an eight-part series on the future of transportation. New articles published every...

  by Seth Shostak 2

• Environment

  

  Speeding Up the Electric Vehicle Revolution

  On Sunday, the owners and makers of electric vehicles will gather for the first National Plug In Day.

  by Sarah Laskow

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• Lifestyle

  

  Can a Faster Condom Help Prevent HIV?

  A speedy new condom could help prevent HIV's spread in a matter of seconds.

  by Amanda Hess +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Now Boarding at the Speed of Light (Sort of)

  Astrophysicist Jason Steffen has made a discovery, but it has less to do with galaxy magnifying glasses than it does boarding airplanes.The...

  by Daniel Riley +

• Design

  

  Vancouver's New Speed Bumps: Little Children

  In an inventive (and slightly unnerving) move, the city of Vancouver will release a new brand of speed bump that uses an optical illusion to...

  by Patrick James 13

• Education

  

  Can Rupert Murdoch Speed the Coming of Online Learning?

  First Murdoch snags Joel Klein, and now a company that designs educational software. Will he bring digital learning in K-12 into the mainstream?

  by Nikhil Swaminathan +

• Technology

  

  Nanomaterial Might Charge Electric Vehicles 60 Times Faster

  If it can be scaled up, a new type of nanomaterial—referred to as "nanoscoops"—could charge electric vehicles 40 to 60 times as fast.

  by Patrick James +

• GOOD Blog

  

  A Comprehensive Plan for High Speed Rail in America

  Infrastructurist points us to a fascinating report by America2050 (I hadn't heard of them either: they are "a national initiative to meet the...

  by Zach Frechette +

• News

  

  Who Gets Florida's High Speed Rail Money?

  Florida governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion of high-speed rail. Can the Northeast line get that love?

  by Ben Jervey +

• Lifestyle

  

  Set Match: My Five Minutes of Muslim Speed Dating

  I’m supposed to meet my husband here.

  by Sadia Latifi +

• GOOD Blog

  

  At Least We Can All Enjoy High Speed Rail

  The ban on gay marriage passed (sigh-come on, California) but at least we also passed Proposition 1A, the Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger...

  by Andrew Price +

• Business

  

  If You Get a Speeding Ticket, Should Your Income Determine the Price?

  In Finland, speeding tickets are based not only on how fast you're driving, but also on how much money you make. Mental Floss has a great rundown...

  by Patrick James +

• News

  

  Electric Motorcycles are Getting Cooler (and Faster) by the Minute

  As if motorcycles weren't impressive enough already, now they're starting to shed the terribly un-hip (by modern standards) internal combustion...

  by Zach Frechette 1