Tag: Transportation
over 7 years ago
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VanMoof's latest electric bike takes on hellish Tokyo commutes

Test riding the new Electrified X

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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft's latest attempt to get into connected cars involves patents

Microsoft is making a fresh attempt to convince companies to use its technology for connected cars. The software gian...

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over 7 years ago
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Intel acquiring Mobileye's self-driving car technology in $15 billion deal

Intel is acquiring Mobileye, a company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles. The Marker and...

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over 7 years ago
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Land Rover has created a special Discovery with a roof-mounted drone

Land Rover has created an unusual version of its Discovery, featuring a quadcopter drone that launches from the top o...

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over 7 years ago
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General Motors sells its European business for $2.3 billion

General Motors has agreed to sell its European business in deals worth $2.3 billion. Peugeot SA will acquire General ...

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over 7 years ago
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Up close with Roborace’s beautiful self-driving racecar

Self-driving racecars sounded ridiculous to me the first time I heard about the idea. Why not just televise CPU vs. C...

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over 7 years ago
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Nissan and BMW bring Microsoft's Cortana assistant to cars

Just days after teasing a Nissan and Cortana partnership, the car maker is unveiling its plans to integrate Microsoft...

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over 7 years ago
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Nissan teases Microsoft's Cortana assistant in its cars

Nissan appears to be preparing to announce Microsoft’s Cortana integration for its cars. The motor company tweeted a ...

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over 7 years ago
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BMW's HoloActive Touch floats a virtual touchscreen next to your steering wheel

BMW has announced the first details of HoloActive Touch, a concept dash interface that uses gesture commands. It's an...

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over 7 years ago
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Google is no longer developing its own self-driving car: report

Google has refocused its autonomous driving efforts away from developing its own car without a steering wheel and ped...

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almost 8 years ago
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Toyota's Kirobo Mini companion robot goes on sale for $400 next year

If you're tired of lonely drives and pine for a 10cm-tall companion that could sit in your Prius' cup holder, well, d...

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about 8 years ago
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Uber is selling its China business to dominant local rival Didi Chuxing

Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing is taking over Uber's local business in a deal valuing the combined company...

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about 8 years ago
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Android Auto comes to Japan today

Android Auto, Google's system for bouncing Android features from smartphones to in-car entertainment systems, is avai...

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about 8 years ago
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I rode this cute self-driving bus that's coming to Japan next month

DeNA, the Japanese company you might remember as the key collaborator in Nintendo's smartphone efforts, wants to be a...

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over 8 years ago
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Microsoft wants to power self-driving cars, not build one

Microsoft isn't interested in building its own self-driving car. Speaking at the Converge conference in Hong Kong thi...

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over 8 years ago
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Apple invests $1 billion in China’s Uber rival

Apple has invested $1 billion into Didi Chuxing, a major Chinese ride-hailing service. Among other things, the move i...

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over 8 years ago
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Watch Amazon's Alexa summon a Tesla Model S out of a garage

If you own a Tesla Model S or Model X you've been able to summon your all-electric car for nearly six months now, but...

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over 8 years ago
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McLaren needs a 20-year-old Compaq laptop to maintain its F1 supercar

McLaren's F1 supercar is special in more ways than one. Even now it's still the world's fastest production car with a...

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over 8 years ago
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Tesla has received almost 400,000 preorders for the Model 3

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed this morning that the company has received almost 400,000 preorders for its new Model 3 ...

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over 8 years ago
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Android Auto comes to 18 new countries including Brazil, India, and Russia

Google has nearly tripled the number of countries that can access Android Auto. The smart car interface now has funct...

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over 8 years ago
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The inventor of Android wants to give you a free dashboard camera

Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android, left Google in 2014. A recent report from The Information suggested he might b...

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over 8 years ago
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Uber is tracking its drivers to see if they're speeding or braking too hard

Uber started tracking its drivers in China through GPS coordinates around six months ago. At the time it was designed...

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over 8 years ago
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If Tesla ever made a Super Bowl ad, this would be it

Tesla's autopilot feature has led to some Model S owners doing stupid things with their cars for YouTube videos. Whil...

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over 8 years ago
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Samsung and Baidu are getting into self-driving cars

Samsung is creating a new team to work on self-driving car technologies. The division will focus on components rather...

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almost 9 years ago
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Future cars drift into the present at Tokyo Motor Show

Of all the car shows on the calendar, the biennial Tokyo Motor Show is the one with the loosest grip on reality. To w...

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almost 9 years ago
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Toyota's radical Kikai concept is the anti-connected car

If you've been keeping up with concept cars lately, you might have noticed a trend. From Mercedes Benz's "chill-out" ...

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almost 9 years ago
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Toyota Kikai photos

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almost 9 years ago
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Mazda's gorgeous RX-Vision concept revives the rotary engine

For decades, Mazda had been known as the sole remaining automaker producing cars powered by rotary engines — that is,...

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almost 9 years ago
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Nissan's Teatro for Dayz concept is a ridiculous car made out of screens

"The first car designed specifically for the generation known as 'digital natives.'"

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almost 9 years ago
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Nissan Teatro for Dayz

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almost 9 years ago
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Microsoft experimenting with Cortana in your car

Microsoft first unveiled its Windows in the car concept at last year's Build developer conference. While the demo inc...

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about 9 years ago
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Nokia sells Here maps unit to Audi, BMW, and Mercedes for $3 billion

Nokia might be expanding into areas like VR, but it's no longer in the maps business — it's just sold its Here unit t...

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about 9 years ago
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Two dead after passenger self-immolates on Japanese bullet train

Japanese media are reporting that two people are feared dead after an apparent act of self-immolation on a bullet tra...

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over 9 years ago
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Google’s self-driving car is hitting public roads this summer

Google's own self-driving car is almost ready to be tested on public roads. In a blog post, project director Chris Ur...

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over 9 years ago
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iPad app issue grounds 'a few dozen' American Airlines flights

Multiple American Airlines flights were thrown into chaos tonight as an app issue with the on-board iPads used by pil...

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over 9 years ago
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Japanese maglev train breaks world speed record for second time in a week

Last week Japan's magnetic levitation bullet train broke a world speed record that had stood for 12 years, and now it...

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over 9 years ago
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A massive fleet of private jets is currently leaving the Super Bowl

It's a few hours after the Super Bowl has ended, and, for the neutrals at least, heartbeats should have mostly return...

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over 9 years ago
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VR will soon be in-flight entertainment, because it makes perfect sense

No matter how many cool movies, music videos, or lightsaber simulators we see, virtual reality is still going to be a...

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almost 10 years ago
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Watch Elon Musk unveil his Tesla D supercar

Elon Musk teased his D car last week and finally unveiled it as a new dual-motor, all-wheel-drive version of the Tesl...

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