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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

The Virtual Transportation Network – Some Snippets from the AVS 16 Symposium

The challenges of tomorrow are evident by walking a few heartbreaking blocks of the streets of San Francisco. On the same boulevard where famous tech companies reside, there are often people living on sidewalks who are suffering; suffering from drug addiction, mental health issues and/or the high cost of housing. The resulting externalities mar one of the […]

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Viodi View – 1/30/15

FCC AWS-3 Auction Ends; Raises Record $44.9 Billion! by Alan Weissberger The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just closed its auction of AWS-3 wireless spectrum licenses, raising a record $44.9 billion in the process. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is the largest amount of money the FCC has ever collected from a spectrum auction, and is more […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment CES2015

Ensuring the Insurance of the Autonomous Future

That a representative of an insurance company for insurance companies was at International CES2015 to learn about autonomous vehicles and their impact on the transportation of tomorrow is an indicator that the automation of transport is well on its way. In the above interview, Michael Scrudato of Munich RE, points out that autonomous vehicles offer […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment ViodiTV

Paving the Way to an Autonomous Future

Apollo 11 is a distant memory in the rear view mirror of life for those old enough to remember the glory days of America’s space program. It was a privilege then to meet someone who was involved with that historic program. Space, however, was not the final frontier for Dr. Alain Kornhauser, a Princeton Professor of Operations […]