Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Car Sharing
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
Apr 23, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Aiways believes something like this robot could be a game changer for EV charging, which today is rather cumbersome in public. Stations go down, payment isn’t totally seamless and the stations themselves aren’t exactly mobile. Instead, CARL could wander...
Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Privacy, Smart Cities
Imagine if the ground could know if you’re walking on it. Imagine if that patch of sidewalk could tell how much you weigh, how fast you’re going, and where you’re headed. Imagine that road could determine exactly how many people are walking or running or biking or...
Apr 16, 2020 | Cyber Security
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would offer free cybersecurity protection tools to health care, humanitarian and human rights groups around the world following a spike in attempted hacking attempts due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company will offer groups...
Apr 16, 2020 | Privacy, Smart Cities
Smart cities can help us combat the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, in a growing number of countries, smart cities are doing just that. Governments and local authorities are using smart city technology, sensors and data to trace the contacts of people infected with the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Investment
Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla got a big boost of confidence from Wall Street Wednesday. Goldman Sachs says buy shares now. “We expect 2020 [industry] fundamentals to be very challenging cyclically,” wrote analyst Mark Delaney in a Wednesday research report....
Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
What looks like a rolling picnic cooler stops at the crosswalk, waits for a car to pass and then navigates its way at a leisurely pace down the sidewalk in suburban Washington. Three blocks away, Jake Williams and his three-year-old daughter Emilia wait for the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Drone delivery is one of the business ideas that suddenly makes a lot more sense in the age of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean you can get pizza airlifted to your home yet. In a few limited ways, operators are stepping in to help businesses limit human-to-human...
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