Transportation

UBER Middle East delivers puppies on-demand in the most adorable fundraiser!

It's raining cats and dogs in Amman, Jordan now, closing roads (flooded underpasses), some schools, and many offices. It's the usual drill for a...

Cairo subway shut down indefinitely for security reasons

Due to political unrest, Cairo's subway had been closed for two years. Now it will be closed for an indefinite amount of time. Tahrir...

Bizarre phenomenon about women mapped in Saudi Arabia

We've laughed and we've cried over stories in Saudi Arabia and women drivers. Let's face it: what's happening in Saudi Arabia is not about...

Elon Musk’s hyperloop one step closer to reality

You have all surely heard of Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator of space travel and the electric vehicles industry. He was the man who...

Car drifter king goes to prison in Saudi Arabia

If you've never been to a Gulf-region country - be prepared to scratch your head over the deadly past-time called drifting. The idea is to take your cars out of their carports and then drive your car as fast as possible on the highway, slam on the breaks and then attempt to frighten onlookers and fellow drivers on the road by drifting or sliding your car towards them. People sometimes get killed or badly injured.

Camels are #1 killers in world’s most fatal place to drive

Saudi Arabia is a dangerous place to drive. It's the world's most dangerous, according to recent media reports. Drifting, that past-time where young Saudi...

Printing an electric car on the world’s largest 3D printer

While online hightech companies might seem to be on the money, investors are hungry for new advances in physical products. But developing them takes...

Glowing bike path gives Dutch cyclists a green starry night

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created an LED-lit  glowing bike path that. The solar-powered LED lights glow at night, and give cyclers a trippy ride...

Turkish electric car

While visionaries like Elon Musk are trying to make electric cars like Tesla mainstream in America, electric cars have yet to become commonplace, largely...

Solar Impulse 2 plane will circumnavigate Earth in 2015

Last year, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg became the first pilots to fly across America in a featherweight plane fueled only by the sun....

Botobus: Istanbul public transit goes botanical and organic!

Happen to be in Istanbul? Then hop aboard Botobus, a new eco-friendly public transport option that features an organic rooftop garden. Introduced last week...

Al Maktoum Dubai airport gets green light for $33 billion expansion

Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central (DWC) was recently approved for a $33 billion expansion making it the largest airport project on the planet...

Railway use by people and freight up, but not in the Middle East

Travelling by rail is a great way to save gas and greenhouse gas emissions. But the Middle East is completely not mentioned in a...

Will Israeli cars roll on alternatives by 2025?

Despite Israel's dead electric car company Better Place and its venture to create an electric alternative to fossil fuel driven cars,  the Israeli government is still interested in ...

Orbital sustainability with space junk tow truck

Maybe I need a new job title. Imagine being head of the Space Debris Office? Or, Space Janitor?

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