--- title: Five Best: How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money description: How tailgating trucks can save us all money, how an advertiser can use online ads to track your location and more. canonical: https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-23T16:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:23.532Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 23, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 23, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How tailgating trucks can save us all money.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/are-those-80000-pound-trucks-tailgating-each-other-soon-it-may-be-perfectly-normal--and-safe/2017/10/22/fbbbb0fa-a2de-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14%5Fstory.html) By Ashley Halsey III in the _Washington Post_ **2\.** [**This is how an advertiser — or anyone — can use online ads to track your location.**](http://mashable.com/2017/10/19/online-ads-track-location-surveillance/#4F7qV7WUUmqN) By Jack Morse in _Mashable_ **3\.** [**As they brace for cuts in government funding, has public media left the ‘public’ behind?**](http://mediashift.org/2017/10/updating-back-basics-journalism/) By Sarah Alvarez in _Mediashift_ **4\.** [**Could food explain why autism impacts boys more often than girls?**](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-does-autism-impact-boys-more-often-than-girls/) By Renee Joy Dufault and Steven G. Gilbert in _Scientific American_ **5\.** [**Take the president’s finger off the nuclear trigger.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/donald-trump-nuclear-button-north-korea-215730) By Dan Glickman in _Politico_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/"},"headline":"How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money","datePublished":"2017-10-23T16:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:23.532Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/","keywords":["Innovation","Autism","Advertising","trucks","Nuclear Weapons","Five Best Ideas"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4993181/how-tailgating-trucks-can-save-us-all-money/","name":"How Tailgating Trucks Can Save Us All Money"}}]}] ```