Electric cars are eerily silent. Hybrid cars will give you a start when they go from gas to electric or vice-versa, because we are used to the sounds go a gas engine. We've read about how car manufacturers are adding art...

Sandro Engel and Holger Michel are interaction des...  ...streets. So they found a way to make waiting at a traffic light fun, rather than annoying. Their solution w...  ...solution was to build a simple video game into a traffic light.[http://vimeo.com/48514003](Video Link)Enge...

In cities that have countdowns on their pedestrian...  ...easier for a pedestrian to judge whether they can safety get across the street in time. But something else...  ...: So just think about it, David, in terms of what safety officials do, if there's a bomb in the building o...  ...omb in the building or ther...

(Photo: Elliot Brown)In some jurisdictions, governments set up cameras along roads to track how fast cars move. If a car is traveling over the speed limit, it snaps a picture of the license plate on it. A computer then f...

Mimes! It's a universally-acknowledged truism that...  ...drivers. When drivers break the rules of driving safety , the mimes let the drivers know in a mime-ish way...  ...ct this past week, the mimes wag their fingers at traffic violators and at pedestrians who streaked across...

(YouTube link) AT&T produced this documentary about what happens when overconfident drivers think they can multitask -sending text messages while driving. It's not worth it. -via Metafilter...

How do you keep cars from zooming too fast in a cr...  ...namorphic optical illusion?In Vancouver, the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation and the safety group Preventable have teamed up and placed an op...  ...y $15,000, as explained by David Dunn of the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundat...