Tag: ProspectSV
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Better Capital Utilization Leads to More Sustainable Living – #InnovationandImpact
“You need to know where to look to understand what those dynamics are, what the physics of that movement of the puck is,” says Gil Friend, Chair of Natural Logic, Inc. and Founder of Critical Path Capital. Reflecting on Wayne Gretzky’s classic wisdom about adjusting to the future, in the above interview, Friend suggests that…
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DSRC vs C-V2X and More – Spectrum Is the Goldmine
“Spectrum, really the airwaves, is the gold mine,” states Rajiv Mathur, Ph.D., Smart Transportation Programs Prospect Silicon Valley. Mathur was referring to an area of agreement between two competing technological approaches that allow vehicles to communicate with each other, with infrastructure and “things” and, conceivably, even pedestrians. The above interview recaps a 1/23/19, ProspectSV forum that…
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A Mobile Electric Platform for Multiple Heavy Duty Work Applications
Is it a forklift, a tractor, a trencher or a mobile power plant, ideal for off-grid and emergency electricity backup applications? Gary Dannar, CEO and Founder of Dannar, would answer yes to all those use cases, as he explains, in the above interview filmed at ProspectSV, that it is possible to outfit the Dannar MPS…
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Better Roadmarkings = Safer Roads
“We are looking at how we can take the technologies we have developed over many years for road signs and pavement markings and those kinds of humanly visible aspects of the roadway and how we can now address those towards the new drivers of the road; the automated vehicles, the autonomous vehicles,” states Andy Dubner,…
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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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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,…
