Automobile

As awareness grows of the toll noise has on children's health and learning, some cities show the way to quieter roads and classrooms.

Certain personality traits can predispose people to taking more risks on the road – but societal biases also lead to recklessness behind the wheel.

Self-driving vehicles are steadily becoming a reality despite the many hurdles still to be overcome – and they could change our world in some unexpected ways.

Learning to drive a driverless car is more difficult than it sounds. One lab is monitoring how we might react when we have to give up the wheel to a computer.

Cars that run on the energy of the Sun have already hit the roads of the Australian desert - and their speeds can even approach a petrol engine.

The best of the week’s long reads in science and technology, including the psychology of price tags and how technology has made us gamble.

Printing the parts of a car and building it yourself sounds like pure fantasy. But one US lab has done just that. Jack Stewart investigates.

Could Apple become a carmaker? Jack Stewart investigates the obstacles that will have to be negotiated if the iCar is to become reality.