Sixty miles an hour may be an easy speed to reach in a car, but if you're in a boat, sixty is damn fast, even if you have a very powerful motor pushing you along. Sailrocket can hit sixty no problem, and it doesn't have any motor at all, just a sail and the wind.

Updating its cute-meets-spacey Pivo concept car originally unveiled back in 2007, Nissan has decided to update the model with a decidedly more aggressive aesthetic.

Your days of gunning it down the highway with only cop cars in speed traps to worry about are over. A company called Peak Gain System's new CORDON multi-target photo radar system is able to track and identify up to 32 different vehicles across four lanes at once, automatically recording speeders for later fining.

Most New Yorkers might be surprised to know that their subway cars were first stress tested and designed in a different world altogether, the train-obsessed culture of Japan. Now a new Japan-made tool seeks to up the ante on train technology.