At the 'Train Zero' lab in the United Kingdom, engineers test systems like signal and speed using simulation. View on ...

Bysiewicz and Elicker test the seats in the model train car. (This is not a full-length car. A photo in the back gives the illusion of one.) Credit: Dereen Shirnekhi photos A life-sized model of a ...

If the Vegas Loop is anything to go by, the ongoing technological arms race to develop driverless cars has seemingly distracted taxpayer dollars from tried and true methods of public transportation.