Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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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…
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Autonomous Vehicles – Augmentation or Replacement? #SmartDrivingCar
Will autonomy augment or replace the human? Author, angel investor and Cannonball Run record holder, Alex Roy, addresses this question in the above interview, filmed at the 2018 SmartDrivingCar Summit. As the founder of Human Driving Association, his view echos that of car designer and futurist Michael Robinson in that the automation features must improve…
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Will Driverless Trucks Have a Driver?
Will driverless trucks require an operator and, if so, what will that person do? Where will that person reside, in the truck or in some remote location? These are the types of questions inspired by the recent request for comments issued by the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration); the federal agency responsible for regulating…
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The Truckers of Tomorrow #GTC18
Better utilization of cargo space is a big part of the business model for Swedish-based, upstart Cargo as a Service (CaaS) company, Einride. By eliminating the cab and associated driver and placing the electric powertrain and associated batteries under the cargo, almost 100% of the Einride T-Pod is available for payload. This efficiency manifests in…
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Autonomous Trucking Made Simple
A 10-camera, Nvidia-GPU powered, autonomous trucking solution on commercially available trucks is what Tu Simple demonstrated at CES2018. The cameras are tuned for short and long-range vision and the trucks will operate depot to depot, primarily on freeways. Although the modified Peterbilt trucks will still have an operator upon commercial launch in late 2018, eventually…
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A Chance to Reinvent the Way We Live – Thanks to MaaS & More
A recurring idea at the Prospect SV 2018 Impact and Innovation conference is that changes to mobility will have the potential for significantly large positive impacts on the built environment and energy consumption. Speakers at the conference embraced these upcoming changes as opportunities to improve the quality of life, particularly in urban areas. Jesse Denver,…