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CDC Says Cars Are Better Than Mass Transit during COVID-19 Crisis

CDC Says Cars Are Better Than Mass Transit during COVID-19 Crisis

Icon SportswireGetty Images The Centers for Disease Control have a new publication, COVID-19 Employer Information for Office Buildings, that encourages private vehicle use over public transportation for workers.Employers should help pay for parking for people who...

Junkyard Gem: 1977 MG MGB

The British Motor Corporation and (later on) British Leyland built the MGB sports car for nearly two full decades, and the primitive-but-sturdy B sold very well in North America. Because of the car’s popularity and simple construction, plenty of project MGBs...
SpaceX rocket blasts into orbit with 2 American astronauts

SpaceX rocket blasts into orbit with 2 American astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rocket built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from...
Tin Ears: Porsche is Listening

Tin Ears: Porsche is Listening

From the March 2020 issue of Car and Driver.As a regular driver of new cars with all manner of sensors and warnings and chimes and buzzers, I give my attention to very few of them anymore. I have beep fatigue. Every morning as I back out of my driveway, I am greeted...
Battery-electric Cessna passenger plane makes maiden flight

Battery-electric Cessna passenger plane makes maiden flight

Hopes for one day powering commercial airplanes with electricity instead of fossil fuels took a big leap forward this week when a Cessna commuter propellor plane modified to run on electricity successfully completed a 30-minute test flight in central Washington. Two...