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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

Green Car Congress

In 2016, TNCs were 15% of all intra-San Francisco vehicle trips, which is 12 times the number of taxi trips, while in New York in 2016, TNC ridership equaled that of yellow cab and doubled annually between 2014 and 2016. TNCs and taxis deadhead to look for fares or reposition before or after a paid trip. —Erhardt.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. We connect high-power communication lines into the DC charging system of the car. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. John Holland: Yes.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

Two trains a day connect Paris with the Catalan capital. Ideally, I would have liked to continue to Madrid on the same day, but there’s no late connection. When I told a taxi driver in Marrakech that I was going there, he got angry and shouted: “No! To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? Incredible.