Mobility News – The Urban Mobility Blog

12/04/18 As New Transit Startups Take Over Streets and Sidewalks, Cities Need to Step Up (Curbed)
05/04/18 This Bike Sharing Company Just Got Bought For $2.7 billion (CNET)
29/03/18 The Tesla Of Smart Cities? Pavegen’s On A £5m Mission To Supercharge Your Sidewalks (Forbes)
22/03/18 I Have Seen the Future of Urbanism and It’s a Micro Scooter (CityLab)
15/03/18 Apple Maps Shows You the Nearest Bike-sharing Stations (TechCrunch)
08/03/18 Death by Dangerous Cycling: Review Recommends New Law to Punish Cyclists in Same Way as Drivers (Independent)
15/02/18 The Electric Glide: E-bikes are destined for something bigger than replacing regular bicycles (Slate)
08/02/18 The Cyclist Problem – Self-driving cars aren’t good at detecting cyclists. The latest proposed fix is a cop-out (Slate)
01/02/18 Uber is Piloting a Bike-sharing Service with JUMP (TechCrunch)
25/01/18 More Bike Lanes Could Save up to 10,000 Lives a Year in Europe (City Lab)
18/01/18 French startup launches world’s first hydrogen-powered bicycles (ET Energyworld)
11/01/18 How Washington DC built a bike boom (CityLab)

12/04/18 Telecom Giants Fear Missing the Money as Cars Go Online (Bloomberg)
05/04/18 Waymo Wants You to Know It Has No Interest in Your Data (Slate)
29/03/18 Dying to Know Uber’s Secrets, Data-Hungry Cities Get Creative (Wired)
22/03/18 Daimler Teams With Google Quantum Computers for Automotive Applications (The Drive)
15/03/18 Cars on the Blockchain? Six Ways Automakers Could Employ the New Technology (Futurism)
08/03/18 Pop-up ads in Your Car? It Could Be the Next Big Thing (Chicago Tribune)
01/03/18 We Went For a Ride in a Huawei Smartphone-controlled, Self-driving Porsche (TechCrunch)
15/02/18 The Problem with ‘Transit Gaps’ (Citylab)
08/02/18 Car navigation systems plot a course forward against phone apps (New York Times)
01/02/18 This is How Data Company Intel is Pushing for an Autonomous Future (The Economic Times)
25/01/18 Here’s Why Data is not the New Oil (Business Insider)
18/01/18 Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse(Washington Post)
11/01/18 CES 2018: Byton unveils futuristic truly “smart car” (BBC)
21/12/17 With Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Burned, the Dockless Bike Sharing Market is Imploding (Forbes)

12/04/18 This battery advance could make electric vehicles far cheaper (MIT Review)
05/04/18 Are Electric Vehicle Charging Corridors the Best Way to Spend Volkswagen’s Dieselgate Billions? (Forbes)
29/03/18 Two Chinese firms can 3D print an electric car in three days, sell it for $10K (Digital Trends)
22/03/18 UPS Moves to Using Only Electric Vehicles in London (Financial Times)
15/03/18 Volkswagen Pours $25 Billion into Electric-car Batteries Challenging Tesla (LA Times)
08/03/18 Volkswagen’s EV Ambitions Accelerates From Zero to Twenty in Six Years (Fobes)
01/03/18 Paris Joins Other Police Forces By Adding Electric Cars To Its Fleet (CleanTechnica)
15/02/18 Dyson’s audacious attempt to shake up car industry (Financial Times)
08/02/18 Automakers are betting big on electric cars — but there’s a lingering problem with EVs no one is talking about (Business Insider)
01/02/18 2017 China Electric Car Sales Blow World out of the Water (CleanTechnica)
25/01/18 Plug Wars: the Battle for Electric Car Supremacy (US News & World Report)
18/01/18 Oil Seller Turns to the Enemy as Electric Cars Dent Petrol Profits (Bloomberg Technology)
11/01/18 In Norway, electric and hybrid cars outsell conventional models (New York Times)
21/12/17 Alibaba Will Soon Begin Selling Electric Cars Using These Gigantic Vending Machines(TechCrunch)

12/04/18 Shared Mobility: Coming Soon to the Uber App: Bikes, Rental Cars, and Public Transportation (The Verge)
05/04/18 Private Companies Want to Replace Public Transport. Should we let them? (The Guardian)
29/03/18 Daimler, BMW Reach a Deal to Merge Car-Sharing Units (Bloomberg)
22/03/18 Lyft is Testing a Netflix-style Monthly Subscription Plan (The Verge)
15/03/18 GM Plans to Launch Airbnb For Your Car (Bloomberg)
08/03/18 Renault’s EZ-GO Electric Car is Ridesharing For the Masses (Engadget)
01/03/18 Ride-hailing Services Aimed at Cutting Traffic are Having the Opposite Effect (Futurism)
15/02/18 Cityscoot raises $50 million for its European electric scooter service (TechCrunch)
02/02/18 The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities has been signed by 15 companies (Intelligent Transport)
01/02/18 Ford Plans to Take Chariot into London Commuting Battle (Financial Times)
25/01/18 In a Shared Economy, Who Will Own Cars? (Forbes)
18/01/18 G.M. Says Its Driverless Car Could Be in Fleets by Next Year (New York Times )
11/01/18 Velib bike-sharing scheme hits road bump in French capital (Reuters)
21/12/17 Uber Suffers Major Setback After Europe Court Rules It’s a Taxi Service (New York Times)

12/04/18 Elon Musk wants hyperloop pod to hit half the speed of sound (CNET)
05/04/18 After Fatal Uber and Tesla crashes, Self-driving Car Tech Companies Band Together (Mashable)
29/03/18 Waylo and Jaguar will Build UP to 20,000 Self-driving Electric SUVs (The Verge)
22/03/18 How Driverless Cars Could Disrupt the Real Estate Industry (Forbes)
15/03/18 Apple Now Has More Self-Driving Car Permits Than Tesla, Uber, and Waymo (Fortune)
08/03/18 Rage Against the Machine: Self-driving Cars Attacked by Angry Californians (The Guardian)
01/03/18 BMW and Toyota are Investing in a Start-up that Makes Self-driving Shuttles (CNBC)
15/02/18 Self-Driving Cars Will Kill Things You Love (And a Few You Hate) (Bloomberg)
08/02/18 Self-driving cars use crazy amounts of power and it’s becoming a problem (Wired)
01/02/18 It’s 2018, so where are the self-driving cars? (The Verge)
25/01/18 Drones learn to Navigate Autonomously by Imitating Cars and Bicycles (ScienceDaily)
18/01/18 One year old Pony.ai raises $112 million Series A to build autonomous car future(TechCrunch)
11/01/18 Baidu could beat Google in self-Driving cars with a totally Google move (MIT Technology Review)
21/12/17 The 5G Network Probably Won’t be Good Enough for Self-Driving Cars (Motherboard)

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