Descending in an elevator after a Mother’s Day rooftop brunch, I had a thought I couldn’t shake: “How is this thing getting past the gigantic column of air below?” I stood there, completely still in ...

These days, the idea of a driverless car makes a lot of people nervous. Our Planet Money team goes back in time when automatic elevators made people just as worried. Now, as Google and other companies ...

It’s a question many people are asking after two elevator accidents killed two women in two weeks. Last week, Annette Lujan was crushed by an elevator at Cal State Long Beach after she tried to climb ...

The offer of a ride in a residential car elevator—not just any car elevator, but the first one that takes drivers from the street directly to their apartments—how could we possibly say no? We’d heard ...