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Helio Castroneves Takes A Record-Matching Fourth Indy 500 Win With Meyer Shank Racing
Helio Castroneves made history at the 105th Indianapolis 500 in his first outing at the iconic race with Meyer Shank Racing — and his first without Team Penske — when he took the checkered flag. His fourth win at the iconic race sets him on par with legends like A. J. Foyt, Al Unser Sr.,…
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We Need To Rewrite Our Masculine Attachment To Car Culture If Electric Cars Are Going To Succeed
Everyone knows that we associate cars with men — especially the heavy ones with loud engines that pump out as much horsepower as they do noise. In fact, it’s often treated as something of a running joke of the kind that accompany truck nutz, rolling coal, and incidents at Cars and Coffee meetups. But academic…
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I Had No Idea How Much Fuel Airplanes Actually Burn Until This Week
My husband texted me earlier this week as he was about to board a flight from Dallas to San Antonio to tell me one of the pilots had mentioned the plane had taken 2,268 kg of fuel. Over two tons of fuel for about 50 minutes in the air.
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Let’s Talk Autonowashing, The Greenwashing Of Autonomous Vehicles
You know how, to many laypeople, autonomous technology actually seems like a very imminent form of transportation, but anyone who’s actually aware of that technology knows how wrong that is? Or the way companies might exaggerate the capabilities of their autonomous tech? There’s a word for that now: autonowashing.