Topic: Cars
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Urban Wonk
What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car
Even the most ubiquitous technologies eventually disappear.
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Shouldn't Pedestrians At Least Be Safe From Cars on the Sidewalk?
Even in walking cities like New York, the criminality of drivers who kill pedestrians is far from clear.
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Somebody Invented a Car that Runs on Coffee
The odd vehicle, which transforms old coffee grounds into hydrogen, recently set a Guinness land-speed record.
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Is Boston Ready for an Apartment Building That Bars Cars?
A proposed development in the city underscores the tradeoffs and design challenges of building cities around the car.
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Videos
What We Lose When Kids Can't Play in Their Own Streets
A U.K. initiative paints a vivid picture of what can happen when families don't have to worry about passing cars.
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Charts
Delaying Car and Home Ownership Has Helped Millennials Dramatically Reduce Their Debt
Young Americans have been offloading debt at a much higher rate than older generations.
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Maps
What Food Desert Maps Get Wrong About How People Eat
Our understanding of food access seldom takes into account a key factor: mobility.
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Charts
Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
50 years ago, experts predicted automobiles would drain the life from urban areas. Their predictions are coming true.
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Why We Need More Research Into Cycling and Brain Science
Riding a bike may have special benefits that other exercise modes don’t, but we just don't know enough about it.
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Do Big City Drivers Actually Have It Worse?
The latest look at how much time American commuters spend in traffic, and the methodology problems that come along with it.
