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Transportation

From self-driving cars to subways: how transportation — and the related policies — impacts our lives around the world.

The fastest way to get more people to buy electric vehicles

By Ella Nilsen

The new Ford F-150 is not the electric vehicle we’ve been waiting for

By Umair Irfan

The battle for the future of “gig” work

Ride-sharing companies are pushing to make a third category of "independent" worker the law of the land. Drivers say the notion of independence is little more than a mirage.

By Sarah Jaffe

Gen Z’s high-speed rail meme dream, explained

By Gabby Birenbaum
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How highways make traffic worse

By Laura Bult

Public transit in the US is already underfunded. The pandemic has made it worse.

By Terry Nguyen

Big electric trucks and buses are coming. Here’s how to speed up the transition.

By David Roberts

The FAA says Boeing can fly 737 Max jets again

By Benjamin Rosenberg

California has rejected a major gig economy reform, leaving workers without employee protections

By Rebecca Heilweil

How the air travel industry is scrambling to convince people to fly

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why we’re still years away from having self-driving cars

By Eric Adams

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Trump’s favorite weapon in the coronavirus fight: Deregulation

Trump entered the White House promising to roll back rules. The pandemic has given him the perfect chance to do that.

By Liz Essley Whyte

Some cities are shutting down transit after curfew. It’s a problem for essential workers and protesters.

By Terry Nguyen

Oh great, now we’re running out of bikes

By Rebecca Heilweil

Uber’s sexual assault report won’t hurt it as badly as other incidents

By Rani Molla

Austin’s failed attempt to regulate Uber and Lyft foreshadowed today’s controversies

By Matthew Zeitlin

Scooters may be a better business than Uber or Lyft, says Lime president Joe Kraus

By Eric Johnson

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Some Uber and Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against their own worker rights

By Shirin Ghaffary

Driverless cars are coming. We’ll miss the thrill of the ride.

By Dan Albert

Delta Air Lines’ CEO has battled both the NRA and Bernie Sanders

By Jason Del Rey

Uber Eats is facing a price war — just like Uber

By Rani Molla

The Uber strike shows how drivers remain one of the company’s biggest liabilities

By Shirin Ghaffary
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How London is fighting its nightmare traffic

By Kimberly Mas

Google’s Wing has landed the FAA’s first approval for drone delivery

By Emily Stewart

Why do airplanes look like nightclubs now?

By Eliza Brooke

Ford CTO Ken Washington explains why self-driving cars are such a hard tech problem

By Eric Johnson

Uber battles its own history in a historic IPO filing

By Rani Molla and Theodore Schleifer

Boeing’s effort to get the 737 Max approved to fly again, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Teslas are selling well, if you consider them luxury cars

By Rani Molla

The emerging 737 Max scandal, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Investing in Uber’s IPO means investing in Uber’s rivals

By Theodore Schleifer

What we learned about the FAA and Boeing’s cozy relationship from a damning new report

By Dylan Scott

Why Tesla desperately needs the new Model Y, in 3 charts

By Rani Molla

Elon Musk is in Twitter trouble yet again

By Theodore Schleifer

Southwest Airlines has had to ground an unusually high number of flights

By Gaby Del Valle

Audi’s Super Bowl ad was the weirdest of the night

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Two early executives at Lime have quietly left the scooter company

By Theodore Schleifer

A new report shows that most keyless cars are easier to steal than previously thought

By Aditi Shrikant

Will Tesla change the world or go out of business? Yes.

By Eric Johnson