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  • Help Wanted at Virgin Galactic — Prior Spaceflight Experience Desired
    Virgin Galactic is hiring. That's good news for people looking for work. The bad news is the company's latest job description is quite specific and rather limiting.




  • Video: Spaceship Lands at San Francisco Airport
    One of the first planes to dock at Virgin America's new San Francisco International Airport terminal was a spaceship. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo arrived hitched between the twin fuselages of WhiteKnightTwo, its mothership and launch platform, and we've got video of the space plane in flight.




  • Mr. Peanut's New Car Drives Us Nuts
    First came the makeover, then the new sidekick. But no mid-life crisis is complete without a new ride, and Mr. Peanut gets his. Think Wienermobile, but nuttier.




  • The Secret World of Printing Concept Cars in 3-D
    The work that goes into building a physical model of a concept car is usually hidden behind closed doors, known only to engineers sworn to secrecy and similarly tight-lipped subcontractors.




  • The Future of Cars: P2P Mesh, 4G and the Cloud
    You may think things like peer to peer networks, 4G and multicore processors have nothing to do with cars. You'd be wrong. They're the future of cars and driving, a future coming sooner than you think.




  • ANTS Are the Tractor of the Future
    The tractor of the future will look like an ant. Or a Mars rover. Or maybe something out of Halo. And it's so cool we want to be farmers when it arrives.




  • Around the World in Two Hours on a 'Traffic Internet'
    A network of vacuum tubes zipping people around the world in no time might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but a former Porsche and BMW engineer is building vehicles for those tubes now.




  • Study Suggests We've Hit 'Peak Travel'
    A study of eight industrialized countries shows passenger travel suggests demand for travel and automobile ownership has reached a saturation point despite predictions, by the International Energy Agency, of 1.5 percent annual growth through 2030. The researchers concede the findings are not conclusive but say they could mean projections of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions will be lower than previously believed.




  • Road-Train Tests Move Forward
    European motorists need not worry if they see a driver not paying attention to the road while tailgating another car — it's all in the name of science.




  • Big Apple's 'Taxi of Tomorrow' May Be ... Turkish?
    New York's search for an iconic taxi is down to three finalists: a Nissan, a Ford and a Karsan. A what?