Tag: Cars
New York City may be able to decide its own speed limits, thanks to a new bill sponsored by State Senator Malave Dilan of Bushwick. A previous bill, which sought to reduce the speed limit to 20MPH on residential streets throughout the city, was withdrawn from City Council when it became clear that regulations in Albany […]
For their latest action, the safe streets advocacy group Right of Way created stenciled tributes to seven senior citizens who were killed by drivers in the last half year. The group spray painted chalk outlines on the streets where the deaths occurred, as well as text that echoes the NYPD’s mantra for incidents in which […]
Felix Ortiz, a New York state assemblyman from Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ban using Google Glass while driving statewide, DNAinfo reports. Supporters of Ortiz’s bill might argue that, duh, you shouldn’t be on the road with a screen mere centimeters from your face. Detractors would say that Glass allows you to do the things you’d […]
The space-age station wagon above is Stella, the solar-powered car that just won a race across Australia. As a competitor in the World Solar Challenge, the car crossed the continent at an average speed of about 41 mph, and with a top speed of about 75. That may seem a little slow, but the Stella […]
Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten‘s newest project focuses on the cultural and corporate wars between bikes and cars. The international doc focuses on commuters already relying on bicycles for their daily commute — like 40% of Copenhagen. The film investigates the world-wide automotive production business, tracking its evolution into a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on […]
In the five weeks since the British tourist Sian Green was maimed by a taxi in Midtown, there have been at least nine pedestrians killed by automobiles in the five boroughs and thirteen other accidents involving pedestrian injuries. It seems like an extreme number, and it is, but for NYC it’s business as usual: cars have been killing […]
We see a lot of crazy videos from Russia. Many from the roads. This thing rolling down the Samara-Orenburg highway is something special though. WTF IS IT?! Is it a transformer? Spawn of the giant steampunk spider from Wild Wild West? A souped-up new import from Future Japan? Commenters are confused too. Some seriously hacked farming equipment for […]
Christopher Tang, the guy who drove a record-breaking 24-minute lap around Manhattan last week, was arrested last night. No word on how the cops found Tang, who uploaded a video of the lap under the pseudonym “AfroDuckProduction” and didn’t leave any obvious traces of his identity in the video. He was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, […]
Per the video‘s intro: “Filmed on August 26, 2013. Filmed in New York City. Film Speed: 4.3x. Route: Southbound on FDR, starting at 116th Street, ending at 116th Street. Car: 2006 BMW Z4 3.0si, manual/stock. Red lights: six.” He does it in 24 minutes seven seconds. Jalopnik asked the anonymous man how he’d respond to accusations […]
New Yorkers looking to pretend they’re Rick Ross, Scott Storch, or Kourtney and Khloe taking Miami for a few minutes are in luck today: that city’s tourism board has a fleet of ludicrously expensive cars stationed across the street from Bryant Park waiting to chauffer you anywhere you’d like, as long as it’s in Midtown. […]
