May 28, 2020 | Justice, Mobility
Warren Logan, policy director of mobility and interagency relations for the mayor’s office of Oakland, which in April became the first city to launch “Slow Streets,” has been at the forefront of the movement to create more space for safe, socially-distanced...
May 28, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Investment, Mobility
PlanetM, the State of Michigan’s mobility initiative, said Tuesday it was awarding more than $280,000 in grants to five companies to tackle mobility difficulties in the state caused by the coronavirus crisis. The companies will receive the grants in...
May 21, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Mobility
Economic development leaders from both Windsor and Detroit joined together Wednesday to announce a new partnership to better promote the region as the perfect two-nation destination for existing and startup mobility companies to invest, locate and conduct business....
May 21, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Mobility
The Rural 5G Fund would repurpose money from the failed Mobility Fund II program, which was supposed to help expand LTE to areas of the U.S. that do not yet have it, and fund 5G deployments instead. “The rapid pace of deployment of 5G networks in many parts of the...
May 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Investment, Mobility
Even before the extra $750 million, Waymo’s funding round was among the largest, if not the largest, in multibillion-dollar investments around self-driving cars. General Motors’ Cruise unit raised $1.15 billion in May 2019, while Uber closed $1 billion from...
May 14, 2020 | Accessibility, Healthcare, Mobility, Robots & Drones
Axel Gerlich took his very first steps thanks to the robotics team at Avondale Middle School. When the COVID-19 outbreak threatened the project, two people stepped up to finish the project. Eileen Hohner, Axel’s therapist, said his new mobility kicks his progress into...
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