Mobility & Transportation
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February 23, 2018
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Hi!
Time for the weekly Mobility & Transportation Reading List.
Enjoy reading!
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Meet Us in Your City! Techstars Hits the Road
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ALEXANDRA E. PETRI
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National Geographic
A look at the Rwanda-based start-up SafeMotos that has changed the life of commuters and has made the streets safer.
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Startup MGZN
Dubai is set to host a World Congress for Self-Driving Transport in October 2019. The event will also include a “Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport”, with prizes in excess $5 million.
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Chris Ames
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Transport Network
The report "Rethinking Urban Mobility" was published this week by Arup in collaboration with Gowling WLG, Thales and the London Transport Museum. It highlights priorities and actions for policy makers, city leaders and built environment professionals to achieve sustainable urban transport systems.
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Ondrej Burkacky, Johannes Deichmann, Georg Doll, and Christian Knochenhauer
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McKinsey
As the car continues its transition from a hardware-driven machine to a software-driven electronics device, the auto industry’s competitive rules are being rewritten.
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Jess Shankleman
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Bloomberg
Get ready for the long goodbye to car culture, many domestic flights, and insurance premiums.
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Mark Bergen
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Bloomberg
Self-driving cars need painfully detailed data on every inch of street. Can automakers solve the problem without the reigning superpower of maps?
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Nikkei Asian Review
Sony will lead a new Japanese effort to develop a taxi-hailing system that uses artificial intelligence to predict demand, entering a field of competition that includes the likes of Toyota Motor, DiDi and Uber investor SoftBank Group (http://www.didichuxing.com/en/press-news/itbyrk2p.html).
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