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Oct 26, 2018
India’s Rickshaw Revolution Leaves China in the Dust
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: finance, transportation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration now is pivoting toward promoting EVs in public transportation and fleet operations – primarily, two- and three-wheelers, taxis and buses. The Ministry of Finance is finalizing a plan to spend about 40 billion rupees ($600 million) in the next five years to improve the nation’s charging infrastructure and subsidize e-buses.
An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, and it has nothing to do with cars.
The South Asian nation is home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws – a fleet bigger than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011. But while the world’s largest auto market dangled significant subsidies to encourage purchases of battery-powered cars, India’s e-movement hardly got a hand from the state.
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Oct 25, 2018
China: facial recognition and state control | The Economist
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: government, privacy, robotics/AI, security, surveillance, transportation
Whether it’s left there or right here… the tactics and destination look pretty much the same to me…
China is the world leader in facial recognition technology. Discover how the country is using it to develop a vast hyper-surveillance system able to monitor and target its ethnic minorities, including the Muslim Uighur population.
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Oct 24, 2018
The future of flying is electric planes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, transportation
Oct 24, 2018
Air pollution leads to millions of ER visits for asthma attacks worldwide
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: health, sustainability, transportation
The new research suggests that:
WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 24, 2018)— Nine to 33 million visits to the emergency room (ER) for asthma worldwide may be triggered by breathing in air polluted by ozone or fine particulate matter—pollutants that can enter the lung’s deep airways, according to a study published today.
Scientists have long known that breathing in air sullied by car emissions and other pollutants could trigger asthma attacks. However, the new study is the first to quantify air pollution’s impact on asthma cases around the globe.
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Oct 23, 2018
Apple files patent for autonomous vehicle caravan features like sharing battery systems while driving
Posted by Mary Jain in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Wow that’s futuristic lvl streamlining…
Apple has today filed a patent for a set of intriguing new autonomous vehicle features called “Peloton.” The filing describes the ability for multiple self-driving cars to share battery capacity via a “connector arm,” dynamically adjust positions, increase efficiency, and more.
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Oct 20, 2018
Lexus Is Ditching Sideview Mirrors
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Oct 18, 2018
Elon Musk says ‘Teslaquila’ is ‘coming soon’ as Tesla files trademark
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Oct 16, 2018
Autonomous Flights Are One Step Closer to Reality
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Oct 14, 2018
Tesla Software Could Completely Shake Up the Auto Industry
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, mobile phones, sustainability, transportation
Tesla is shaking up the automotive industry. But which of Tesla’s products and features are doing the disrupting, and who will be affected? A recent article by Benedict Evans delves into the details of this automotive disruption with comparisons to similar shake ups in the tech industry.
Evans uses the disruptive wave that Apple unleashed on Palm, Nokia, and other makers of previous-generation cell phones as an analogy. “When Nokia’s people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling,” he writes. “When many car company people look at a Tesla, they see a not-great car with some cool features that they’re going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they’re selling.”
But can Tesla be considered the Apple of the auto industry, and if so, what would that mean? Disruption occurs when a new technology or concept changes the basis of competition in a field. However, not every new technology turns out to be disruptive. “Some things do not change the basis of competition enough, and for some things the incumbents are able to learn and absorb the new concept instead,” writes Evans, noting that business professor Clay Christensen calls this “sustaining innovation” as opposed to “disruptive innovation”.
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