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Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute Launch Global Initiative to Help Cities Prepare for the Advent of Autonomous Vehicles

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MIAMI, Oct. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute today announced the Bloomberg Aspen Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles, a new program for leading global mayors who will work together to prepare their cities for the emergence of autonomous vehicles. Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute will galvanize experts and data to accelerate cities’ planning efforts, and

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RideCell Hires Two Cisco Connected Car Leaders

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Executives Join RideCell to Accelerate Adoption of Platform for Car and Ride Sharing Services SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — RideCell (www.ridecell.com), the leading platform for scaling game-changing new mobility services such as ride-sharing and car-sharing, today announced the appointment of Mark Thomas as Vice President of Marketing, and Paul Drysch as Vice President of Business Development and General Manager

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Domino’s Will Use Unmanned Drones to Deliver Pizzas

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Domino’s Pizza is “absolutely” looking into using drones and autonomous vehicles as a way to deliver pizza in the future, CEO Patrick Doyle said Tuesday. Doyle said the company has already done some work with drones and pointed out Domino’s has begun testing an autonomous robotic vehicle in Australia. Domino’s has long prided itself on its embrace of technology. Doyle said digital sales

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Ford Is Steering towards Autonomous Car Sharing & Ride Hailing Services in 5 Years

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Ford aims to do more than make and sell cars. The next 5 years plan to tap into the $5.4 trillion market for car-sharing services and ride-hailing services with Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles that are unrelated to conventional car ownership. Ford plans to make self-driving cars for commercial ride-sharing or on-demand taxi services by 2021, a target the automaker says it will reach

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At Toyota, IoT and Falling in Love Again

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The internet of things isn’t just about sensors and big data. For Toyota, it’s also about reshaping mobility in all its forms through vision, connectivity, and services designed to delight end users. At Toyota, we are all about mobility. I’m not talking just about car ownership. Mobility also includes public transportation, ride-sharing, hoverboards, walking—anything that can get people from place

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Ride-Hailing Services & Self-Driving Cars will Boost Alcoholic Beverage Market

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Autonomous vehicles would bring a boost of nearly $98 billion to the alcohol industry. Drivers could consume even more than one extra drink per week if they reside in cities where shared mobility self-driving cars on the roads, or hailing self-driving ride-sharing services , because they wouldn’t have to drive home. Autonomous cars are the next big thing in the automotive industry and why

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Driver Who Crashed blames Tesla’s Sales Staff

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The driver who crashed says Tesla’s sales staff promoted the system as “self-driving.” Tesla said on Wednesday that one of its cars had crashed in Beijing while in “autopilot” mode, with the driver contending sales staff sold the function as “self-driving,” overplaying its actual capabilities. Tesla said it had reviewed data to confirm the car was in autopilot mode, a system

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Musk Says Narrow AI Is Key To Autonomous Driving

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With the recent announcement that Tesla and MobilEye are ending their long time business relationship, Elon Musk gave some details on what to expect from Tesla’s Autopilot and fully autonomous driving development.   On Tesla’s proprietary mapping initiatives.  “What we’ve said thus far is that there’s need to have much higher definition maps than currently exists anywhere in the world in order

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