Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Artists, Accessibility and Autonomous Vehicles – Part 2 #AVS18
A long-time proponent of autonomous taxis, Princeton Professor Dr Alain Kornhauser discusses a potential downside for this future mobility as a service offering. Speaking at the AVS18 Symposium, Kornhauser warns that operators will need to account for how people treat property they don’t own. In the above video, he provides many examples of graffiti-covered public…
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Viodi View – 08/10/18
The previous issue of the Viodi View, set high expectations for the 2018 Independent Show, suggesting it would match the glory days of the Western Cable Show (C-SPAN video from 1994). As seen in the glimpses from the next three interviews, #TIS18 exceeded expectations. The Independent Show is always consistent in its mix of timely content, great networking and…
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The Elevator Pitch – Share the Road, Share a Ride
Share a ride in the same way that an elevator is shared is Dr. Alain Kornhauser’s plea in above interview filmed at the AVS18 conference. Further, in a recent SmartDrivingCar podcast with Fred Fishkin, Kornhauser calculated that with the 80,000+ vehicles Waymo has on order, they could be providing 4 million rides per day within…
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A New Kind of Transit Agency #SmartDrivingCar
If the highest market capitalization lodging company doesn’t own hotels, then does it follow that transit agencies will always need to own buses? In the above interview, filmed at the 2018 SmartDrivingCar Summit at Princeton, Bern Grush, co-author of The End of Driving, discusses how technology is allowing transits agencies to examine how to best achieve…
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Viodi View – 07/26/18
Next week’s 2018 Independent Show in Anaheim is sure to draw comparisons to the legendary Western Cable Show. The next three videos provide a preview of what to expect from a show that has the energy and in many ways a similar vibe of the exciting times when the cable industry was still young and the…
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The Corporate Electric Bike Share
It’s clear that bikeshare is becoming a practical mobility alternative in urban areas, as shown by the recent proliferation of dockless (park anywhere) bikeshare providers throughout the U.S. Dockless bikeshare builds on the earlier success of docked (bike racks) bikeshare. For instant, in June, bikeshare provider Motivate (recently purchased by Lyft), achieved a total of 60M…