article thumbnail

What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

Baua Electric

Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. The ordinance, he said, was aimed at dealing with “behavior that impacts on residential neighborhoods” and with takeaway alcoholic drinks, which are seen as the main reason late-night revelers linger on certain streets and squares.

article thumbnail

Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly. But this is but a singular component.

Cleveland 115
article thumbnail

Tesla Model Y taxi fleet from Revel set for NYC launch after regulatory mix up

Teslarati

Revel told Teslarati that it will consider growing into other neighborhoods and boroughs once the company has more of an idea of where the fleet is being utilized most frequently. The fleet will operate south of 42nd St. in Manhattan, stretching down to the tip of the island.

Taxi 145
article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

Singapore 144
article thumbnail

In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

I was at a trade fair and I saw this little neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I Our house was very popular because we always had hot showers and cold beer.” It was a Polaris GEM , it ran at 25 miles per hour (mph). White’s Polaris GEM with added solar panel.

article thumbnail

Scooter Helmets: Everything you need to know

Green Authority

Depending on your country, there will be different legal requirements for whether or not you need to wear a helmet and, if so, what kind of standards your helmet has to meet. Even if your region doesn’t require you to wear a helmet, it’s still a good idea. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg.

MPH 59
article thumbnail

Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. Just a few weeks ago, President Biden issued an executive order on AI that followed up on many of the ideas in the Bill of Rights.