Transportation – Page 18 of 30

Everyone wants to know how Seattle’s dockless bike share experiment is going

City planners and researchers are eager to get feedback on Seattle’s novel dockless bike sharing pilot to determine whether it… Read More

Lockheed Martin wins $247.5M NASA contract for super-quiet supersonic test jet

NASA says Lockheed Martin will be its partner in building a supersonic test plane that’s designed to muffle sonic booms… Read More

Seaplane flights from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., close to reality with addition of customs facility

Direct seaplane flights between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., have moved another step closer toward becoming reality and providing an efficient… Read More

Seattle considers raising rates for Uber and Lyft rides to boost driver compensation

Uber and Lyft rides could become more expensive in Seattle. The city is considering setting a minimum fare per ride… Read More

Elon Musk turns Tesla’s troubles into April Fools’ joke — but flamethrowers are real

Between Model S recalls and Model 3 production snags, Tesla has been having a hard time lately — but not as… Read More

5 key takeaways from The New Yorker’s revealing profile of new Uber chief Dara Khosrowshahi

Dara Khosrowshahi has become one of the world’s most influential technology executives by spending more than a decade thinking about… Read More

Washington will be a world leader for self-driving cars and electric ferries, governor predicts

The future of transportation will be in Seattle. That’s a proclamation Washington Gov. Jay Inslee made at an event Wednesday… Read More

Car2go and ReachNow car-sharing services to merge in deal between auto giants Daimler, BMW

European auto giants Daimler and BMW, whose car-sharing services compete in Seattle and other U.S. cities, have agreed to combine their… Read More

‘One of the smartest tunnels ever built’: New video explains how tech will help keep Seattle drivers safe

Leave it to a high-tech city above ground to build a high-tech roadway underground. Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel project has… Read More

Boeing delivers first 787-10 Dreamliner, marking a first for South Carolina factory

Boeing delivered its first stretched-out, wide-body 787-10 Dreamliner jet tonight, scoring yet another first in the process. The ceremonial handover… Read More

Boeing delivers first 737 MAX 9 to Lion Air

Boeing made its first delivery of a 737 MAX 9 jet to Lion Air Group today — less than a year… Read More

Bike sharing companies Spin, LimeBike warn riders of brake lines being cut on bicycles in Seattle

Update, March 21, 3:40 p.m. PT: This story has been updated with additional information from LimeBike, the Seattle Department of… Read More

Dockless bike sharing is expanding to Bellevue, applying lessons from Seattle

Dockless bike-sharing is picking up speed in the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Transportation officials in Bellevue, Wash., are… Read More

Uber halts self-driving rides in four cities after woman is hit and killed by vehicle in Arizona

A woman who was struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle on Sunday in Tempe, Ariz., died from her injuries. In… Read More

Portland to Seattle to Vancouver: B.C. kicks in $300,000 for rapid transit study

News Brief: British Columbia will contribute $300,000 toward a study that will look into the business case for an ultra-high-speed… Read More

Boeing’s 737 MAX 7 jet aces first flight

For its first test flight, the newest and smallest sibling in Boeing’s top-selling 737 family of jets, the 737 MAX… Read More

Boeing HorizonX gets in on $15M funding round for Fortem drone radar venture

Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm signaled that it’s doubling down on autonomous flight technologies by participating in a $15 million… Read More

Boeing and Guinness World Records celebrate production of 10,000th 737 jet

Boeing 737 jets are rolling out of the factory in Renton, Wash., more than once a day, but the Southwest… Read More

Former Seattle transportation chief Scott Kubly joins LimeBike to run government operations

LimeBike has a new executive: Scott Kubly, the former Seattle official who oversaw the biggest transportation levy in city history,… Read More

Chinese bike-sharing juggernaut Ofo raises $866 million from Alibaba and other investors

Ofo has raised a massive $866 million in funding. The Beijing-based company operates millions of lemon-yellow dockless shared bicycles around… Read More

Elon Musk shifts focus of his grand tunnel vision from cars to walkers and cyclists

Tesla cars riding electric-powered tracks? Forget about it, at least for now. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and founder… Read More

Elon Musk enlists Tesla’s all-electric Semi trucks to ship Tesla’s battery packs

“Eat Your Own Dog Food” is an aphorism referring to the Microsoft tradition of using its own software products, but it… Read More

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg hails the air taxi as an idea whose time is coming … fast

It’s not exactly a revelation that the Boeing Co. is interested in autonomous flight, including robo-planes that can fly people.… Read More

Thousands of diesel VWs await their fate in the shadow of the defunct Satsop Nuclear Power Plant in Elma, Washington

Aerial images reveal thousands of emissions-cheating diesel VWs awaiting their fate in shadow of defunct nuclear plant

If you sold your recalled emissions-cheating diesel VW back to Volkswagen in the Pacific Northwest, you may be able to… Read More

Uber Health launches with tools to help patients get to medical appointments

Uber launched a new service Thursday designed to ferry patients to and from doctors’ appointments. The Uber Health dashboard allows… Read More

Such a deal? White House reports $3.9B contract with Boeing for Air Force One

The White House says President Donald Trump has struck an “informal deal” with Boeing on a $3.9 billion fixed-price contract… Read More

Airbus’ Vahana venture shows off video of its flying car’s first test flight in Oregon

News brief: Vahana, the Airbus-backed venture that’s developing a fleet of electric-powered air taxis, shared the results of its first… Read More

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi takes up Elon Musk’s challenge on flying cars vs. tunnels

Pop up some more popcorn: Billionaire Elon Musk has gotten himself into another CEO vs. CEO challenge, this time with… Read More

Seattle region invites mobility companies to pilot shared employer shuttles for commuters

King County Metro — which covers Seattle, Bellevue, and surrounding communities — is launching a pilot program for commuter shuttles… Read More

Could Pittsburgh’s resurgent airport be the key to landing Amazon’s HQ2?

PITTSBURGH — Deep within Amazon’s request for proposals for its second North American headquarters, in a section about logistics, is… Read More