Ever performed a track stand, where you keep your bike upright at a stop without taking your feet off the pedals? If you have, you'll want to avoid trying that around Google's self-driving cars, at ...

It’s usually easy for our human brains to predict how any given car, pedestrian, or cyclist is going to act, but computers must be programmed to “understand” all of our varying behaviors on the road.

We've been hearing about Google's self-driving cars getting into fender-benders before, mostly at the fault of other vehicles with a human behind the wheel, but recently one of the autonomous vehicles ...

On Friday, a friend of mine was riding into downtown via the Hawthorne Bridge. As he approached a red light at First Street he came to a stop, but his feet did not leave his pedals (this is known as a ...

The best way to confuse one of Google’s autonomous cars? Ride a fixed-gear bike and do a track stand. Not that you’d want to be the cause of any self-driving car uncertainty, seeing as that could ...

Earlier this month in Austin, a cyclist and a Google self-driving car met at a four-way stop. This likely wasn’t the first time a Google self-driving vehicle has encountered a cyclist at a four-way ...

Free WiFi: Check. A countertop turntable spinning vinyl: Check. The coolest coffee-and-bike promotion in Bike City USA: Check. Three months after opening its cozy downtown caffeine stop, has come up ...

Rob Warner and Tom Oehler explain how to perfect the track stand, a useful skill when out on the trails. It aids in a variety of different technical situations, especially when control is needed.

Lattes served in big Mason jars: Check. Free Wi-Fi and vinyl spinning on the countertop: Yep and yep. The coolest coffee-and-bike promotion in Bike City U.S.A.: Oh, yeah. Last month, began offering ...