Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit Friday to West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, after seeing a report on “CBS Evening News” about the “Lights On” program that allows kids to stay over Friday night and even do their laundry. Watch her tell the students she is donating $500,000 to keep the program running through the summer. Source

Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit Friday to West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, after seeing a report on “CBS Evening News” about the “Lights On” program that allows kids to stay over Friday night and even do their laundry. Watch her tell the students she is donating $500,000 to keep the program running through the summer. Source

After decades of promises, flying cars are finally becoming real, though they won’t look like what “The Jetsons” promised Source

Autonomous vehicles are becoming a new normal for more and more people Source

Comedian Jim Gaffigan will do anything to avoid coping with traffic, which has a way of making life miserable, from cradle to grave. Source

Colorful designs adorn the lids to the sewers in towns across the country, inspiring flocks of fans, called “manholers,” to engage in manhole tourism Source

As Americans spend an estimated 97 hours a year stuck in traffic, costing tens of billions in lost productivity, answers to our traffic nightmares are being explored – both high-tech and old-school Source

Tommy Lutz’s 12-mile commute from his home in New Jersey to the Manhattan offices of Google is accomplished by a foldable bicycle and then, once he hits the Hudson River, a foldable boat Source

Traffic during rush hour in Washington, D.C., is among the worst in the nation – so lethargic that even a venerable Ford Model T, driven by comedian and car aficionado Jay Leno, would have to slow down to keep up. Special correspondent Ted Koppel joins Leno as he slowly makes his way through the nation’s capital, while offering a discourse on America’s transportation history. Source

After decades of promises, flying cars are becoming real. Richard Schlesinger looks at vehicles that will soon be hitting the road (or rather, hovering a couple thousand feet above), which look more like helicopters than what “The Jetsons” promised. Source