Automobile

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.