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Jul 30, 2017

New Research Says Self-Driving Cars Will Save an Absurd Amount of Money Avoiding Car Wrecks

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI, transportation

This would transform the world.

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Jul 29, 2017

Tech’s Most Dubious Promises, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, transportation

A NY-DC hyperloop isn’t the first outrageous claim we’ve heard from Silicon Valley.

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Jul 28, 2017

One of the world’s longest electric car highways will be built in Australia

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Range anxiety be gone.

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Jul 28, 2017

Tonight Elon Musk delivers 30 Model 3 Teslas and things may never be the same

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

30 lucky customers will get their hands on the first Tesla Model 3 electric cars to roll off the production line. Here’s why it matters.

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Jul 28, 2017

Hyperloop travel just got a step closer to reality

Posted by in category: transportation

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Jul 27, 2017

Robot flying taxi takes its first autonomous flight

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Formerly known as the “Air Mule,” this is a flying taxi, or maybe a future unmanned ambulance.

Urban Aeronautics

Nine years ago, the Air Mule was an almost-believable concept: a flying robot taxi that could get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering a pilot or crew. It was the exact sort of gizmo one expects from Popular Science: an amazing machine of the future, almost like a flying car, that seemed plausible but just out of reach.

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Jul 26, 2017

How facial recognition could replace train tickets

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Pay your fare using a 3D face map

Jump to media player A system designed to replace the need for tickets on trains is being tested in the UK.

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Jul 26, 2017

What will the car of 2040 be like?

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Following the announcement petrol and diesel engine cars will be banned from sale in 2040, the car of the future is up for grabs.

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Jul 23, 2017

Norway Takes Lead in Race to Build Autonomous Cargo Ships

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

We are getting close to the point of a completely automated supply chain.


OSLO—Two Norwegian companies are taking the lead in the race to build the world’s first crewless, autonomously operated ship, an advance that could mark a turning point in seaborne trade.

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Jul 23, 2017

Back to the future: Flying taxis to transport Muscovites in 2018

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Service to use ‘blockchain platform’ and will be able to transport up to four people.

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