Urban Mobility
If you think we’re hyperconnected today, just wait until autonomous cars are everywhere. In 2020, we’ll all download and upload a lot more data, and so will the objects around us. The average person will soon use 1.5 gigabytes of data daily, while autonomous vehicles will use about 4,000, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum
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The Volkswagen Incident is making the huge popularity of German cars among Korean consumers ebbing away as market share of German vehicles decline in Korea. According to the Korea Automotive Importers & Dealers Association on August 16, German cars’ market share hit 57.6% in July, the lowest this year. By contrast, that of Japanese cars stood at 15.5%, up 3.2% from a
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Uber has been developing autonomous vehicles and envisions a day when those cars could replace its tens of thousands of contract drivers Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it is buying Ottomotto LLC, a Silicon Valley startup building self-driving vehicle technology for trucks. As part of the deal, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski is joining Uber and will lead the company’s
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Mercedes-Benz Financial Services ranks highest among lenders in the prime retail credit segment for a second consecutive year, with a score of 961, according to the J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study Mercedes is followed by BMW Financial Services (959); Alphera Financial Services (941); Lincoln Automotive Financial Services (936); and Infiniti Financial Services (930). Retail leasing segment Mercedes Financial ranks
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Segway a leading brand in Electric Personal Transportation and urban mobility opened its Beijing Flagship Store displaying Segway and Ninebot’s latest and futuristic products including the Segway Robot and PUMA cutting edge technology. “… in almost every major city… all of what should be beautiful pedestrian space… is either a parked car, a parking garage, or a row of running cars, bumper to
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Ganesh Srivats, Tesla’s vice president of North American sales, knows a thing or two about sales. Prior to joining Tesla last year, he was a senior vice president at Burberry, the upscale British clothing and accessory house. Tesla has already upended the auto sales model by selling direct to customers, but Srivats hints that even more drastic changes are coming. He
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The Straits Times Singapore reports: Despite a reduced Certificate of Entitlement (COE) quota in the current quarter, COE prices showed marginal movements at the close of the month’s second tender exercise yesterday. Car dealers said buyers have been holding back their purchases due to the weak economic climate, and the flurry of orders seen a few months ago is now
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Porter Harris is a renowned battery engineer. Before co-founding Romeo Power, Harris was Chief Battery Architect for Faraday Future, where he designed battery strings for the company’s variable platform architecture. His new startup Romeo Power, based in California will design and manufacture electric vehicle battery packs that the company says will outperform any battery systems on the EV market today. Romeo
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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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The iconic London TX4 taxi will finally meet its end in mid-2017 when it will be replaced by the brand new hybrid-electric TX5. In May, Geely has raised US$400 million through a ‘green’ bond issue to fund the development of the new hybrid-electric TX5 successor to the Black Cab. The London Taxi Company (LTC), the company that makes the TX4 and will make
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