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Durable Self-Balancing Scooter Boasts Better Battery Life & Higher Speeds

A combination of rugged and road-worthy, this self-balancing electric scooter boasts quick-start functionality and speeds of up to 25 mile per hour, perfect for scooting through (and around) ...

Vespa Revamp: Classic Scooter Brought up to Speed with Electric Redesign

The Vespampère is slim, light and stylish, recalling a vintage classic from 1948 with an electric motor and other contemporary technological tweaks to bring it in tune with the modern era. Among ...

Public Wattway: France Activates World’s First Solar-Paneled Roadway

Developed by Wattway and deployed on the streets of Tourouvre-au-Perche, a 1,000-meter-long solar-paneled roadway in France is the first stretch of a 1,000-kilometer endeavor. The ...

Electroads: Wireless Vehicle-Charging Roads Rolling Out in Tel Aviv

A series of roads and public buses in Israel are being retrofitted to test an electromagnetic induction system designed to recharge vehicles on the go, eliminating the cost, time, emissions and ...

Traffic-Proof Transit: Real Car-Straddling Bus Rolls Out in China

Initial plans to develop a lane-spanning bus in China were met with great enthusiasm but some skepticism, the latter of which is now being addressed via a real-life, full-sized ...

Diagonal Crosswalk: Walk Any Way in LA’s Safe Scramble Intersection

When visitors approach the intersection in front of Seattle's famous Pike Place Market in the heart of downtown, the surprise is palpable when they realize that a 'go' for pedestrians lets people ...

Diverging Diamond: Novel Highway Design Eliminates Hazardous Left Turns

The diverging diamond interchange has been heralded as the new cloverleaf and condemned as pedestrian unfriendly, but it does do at least one thing remarkably well: it eliminates dangerous ...

Lane-Spanning Airbus to Drive Right Over Car Traffic in China

A Chinese transportation company behind a lane-straddling bus design (which passes over lanes rather than occupying them) is moving from scale to full-sized test models this summer. The plan is ...

Mild Max: Perth Police Put a Stop to Motorized Picnic Tables

In what could be viewed as a pre-apocalyptic take on hacked vehicular hybrids of the Mad Max movies, a pair of picnic table cars have been spotted on the streets of Western Australia's capital ...

Holloway Roads: Tunnels Eroded by Passage of People Over Time

Holloways (or: hollow ways) are desire paths gone wild, reflecting centuries or even millennia of informal use, slowly transforming them from flat paths to sunken lanes and, in some cases, ...

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