It’s a prodigious goal: a carbon neutral city. The changes required to make it happen extend beyond Copenhagen’s city planners. Residents, businesses and infrastructure will all have to come together to make a carbon neutral Copenhagen by 2025. It’s an incredibly complex subject, carbon neutrality. It does not mean carbon-zero, or a complete lack of… Continue reading Copenhagen’s carbon neutral plan
Tag: Mobility
At Uber, a New CEO Shifts Gears
The Indian city of Gurugram, which in Hindi means “village of the guru,” is a technology-and-business hub twenty miles south of New Delhi, reached by highways filled with auto-rickshaws, exhaust-spewing buses, and the occasional immovable cow. The city’s glass high-rises contain dozens of multinational corporations, including Pepsi, Google, and Microsoft. On a recent morning, a… Continue reading At Uber, a New CEO Shifts Gears
RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback: Feedly, The Old Reader, Inoreader
The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often… Continue reading RSS Readers Are Due for a Comeback: Feedly, The Old Reader, Inoreader
Press Release – Magna Provides Engineering Expertise to New Automaker VinFast
Please click HERE for a PDF version of the release. Complete vehicle development for two models Advanced engineering methods reduce development time to 12 months Vehicles will be built at the VinFast production plant in Haiphong, Vietnam SHANGHAI, China, March 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Asia represents one of the strongest growing automotive markets in… Continue reading Press Release – Magna Provides Engineering Expertise to New Automaker VinFast
AN EYE OPENER FOR PROTON DEALERS
PRESS AN EYE OPENER FOR PROTON DEALERS Posted on Mar 30, 2018 Subang Jaya, 30 Mac 2018 – A group of 33 PROTON dealers from Malaysia were recently treated to a visit to the Geely Research Institute (GRI) in Hangzhou Bay, China. The intention of the visit was to take a peek at the future… Continue reading AN EYE OPENER FOR PROTON DEALERS
Nissan, Renault in Talks to Merge, Create New Company
Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. are in talks to merge, seeking to solidify their two-decade-old alliance under a single stock as an unprecedented shift toward electric and shared cars transforms the industry, people with knowledge of the matter said. A deal would end the current alliance between the companies and marry them as one… Continue reading Nissan, Renault in Talks to Merge, Create New Company
Uber has settled with the family of the homeless victim killed last week
Uber has reportedly come to a fast settlement with the family of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was fatally struck last week by one of the company’s self-driving vehicles as she crossed a darkened street, pushing a bicycle. Terms of the settlement are not being disclosed; Uber declined to comment when we asked the company for further… Continue reading Uber has settled with the family of the homeless victim killed last week
UPDATE 4-Uber avoids legal battle with family of autonomous vehicle victim
TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) – The family of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with the ride services company, ending a potential legal battle over the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle. Cristina Perez Hesano, an attorney with the firm of Bellah Perez in Glendale,… Continue reading UPDATE 4-Uber avoids legal battle with family of autonomous vehicle victim
Where’s Super Cruise in Cadillac’s two new cars?
Finally, Cadillac has an SUV to rival popular small luxury rivals such as the BMW X1 and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque. Based on the fact that SUVs are about the only Cadillacs anyone is buying these days, the 2019 XT4 should help get more foot traffic in showrooms. There’s just one thing: you can’t… Continue reading Where’s Super Cruise in Cadillac’s two new cars?
Uber Settles with Family of AV Crash Victim
Uber has reached a settlement with the family of Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman struck and killed by one of Uber’s autonomous vehicles (AVs) on March 18. The terms of the Uber settlement were not disclosed. Click to View Full Infographic “The matter has been resolved,” the family’s lawyer Cristina Perez Hesano told Reuters. The… Continue reading Uber Settles with Family of AV Crash Victim