536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or ...

How a secret project at Google led to driverless cars on American roads. Freakonomics Radio shares a story from our friends at Search Engine. (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Alex Davies, author of Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car. Chris Urmson, co-founder a ...  Show more

A ruthless (and ruthlessly efficient) industry is using digital tools to supercharge one of the world’s oldest behaviors. We look at how the industry works, and ask the scam-fighters what they’re doing about it. SOURCES: Kati Daffan, former assistant director at the Federal Trade ...  Show more

The girlies answer a pressing question: why is flying so awful? We used to have hotties in Pan Am uniforms serving us caviar, and now we suffer through heinous security lines to sit in seats with no legroom where the emergency exit door is not guaranteed to stay on til landing ...

"Why Is It Often More Expensive to Travel by Train than by Plane?" Transcription : https://www.patreon.com/posts/82986758 

Parmi les conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine, figure l'augmentation des prix du carburant. Celle-ci touche directement les compagnies aériennes, dont certaines ont déjà annoncé une hausse de leurs tarifs.

Une hausse des prix

Plusieurs compagnies aériennes ...

Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled. 

While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has transformed how Americans fly, melted down. In the last 10 days of th ...