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+10 +2In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Hour Away
A newly revived rail plan could see Denmark’s trains catch up with its reputation for other types of green transit.
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+30 +5Invasion of the electric scooter: can our cities cope?
They’re cheaper than cabs, less effort than a bike and more convenient than buses. But as the number of e-scooter accidents rises, a backlash is growing
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+1 +1How we've created Transportation Management System for logistic company
You should focus on the transportation management system implementation to effectively manage your business processes. In our article, you’ll find out the core TMS features, discover its benefits for your business and learn how to choose a great solution.
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+10 +1I Rode All the E-Scooters. Most of Them Are Awful Except Two
One weekend morning toward the end of 2017, I woke up at home in Venice, CA and took a walk, only to see something entirely new: people on electric scooters. And I mean lots of people on electric scooters. Literally overnight, a new company called Bird, founded just two miles away in Santa Monica, had launched an app and dumped thousands of dockless scooters all over the place. A few things happened very quickly after that:
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+23 +3Tesla has a design for an electric submarine car, but don't hold your breath
Elon Musk revealed that Tesla has a design for an electric submarine or amphibious car, but it doesn’t sound like it’s something that they plan on bringing to market. The 1977 James Bond movie ‘The Spy Who Loved Me‘ featured a modified Lotus Esprit that could change into a submarine.
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+36 +6Why Las Vegas Is Betting on Elon Musk
Even if the Boring Company's “people mover” for the Las Vegas Convention Center is a bust, it helps burnish the city's high-tech brand.
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+15 +4Rideshares Like Uber and Lyft Have 35,000 Times More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat
Do you hail a ride through an app on the regular? You might want to start carrying some hand sanitizer.
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+36 +7Head injuries, broken bones plague e-scooter users as more data rolls in
A three-month period in Austin, Texas, saw 20 injuries per 100,000 rides.
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+48 +5Phone Addicts are the New Drunk Drivers
For its third annual Distracted Driving Study, Zendrive uncovers a dangerous new category of distracted drivers: Phone Addicts.
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+26 +2Tesla Model 3 drivers reach over 1 billion electric miles in record time
After just over a year since starting deliveries, Tesla Model 3 drivers have already reached over 1 billion electric miles in record time. Tesla’s mission to accelerate the advent of electric transport includes converting mileage that would be normally powered by gasoline to electric mileage. Back in October 2016, we reported on Tesla reaching the 3 billion electric mile milestone and the company’s global fleet managed to add 500 million more miles 3 months later...
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+34 +9World’s shortest motorway built to shame a nation
An entrepreneur builds a one-metre-long stretch of motorway to protest about poor road infrastructure.
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+1 +1Robot valets are now parking cars in one of France’s busiest airports
Next time you head to the airport in France there might be a robot waiting to pick up your car. French firm Stanley Robotics has been trialling its self-driving robot valets for a few years, and this week started its first full-time service at France’s Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport. The system works like this. Customers park their cars in special hangars where the vehicles are scanned to confirm their make and model.
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+15 +2US announces ban on transporting lithium ion batteries as cargo on passenger flights
The US Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration are banning people from storing lithium ion cells or batteries as cargo on passenger planes, the agencies announced today. Companies also cannot ship batteries with more than 30 percent charge aboard cargo-only aircrafts.
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+16 +2A major chemical company is building roads made of recycled plastic. They've already stopped 220,000 pounds of waste from ending up in landfills.
Plastic gets a bad rap for clogging up landfills, polluting our oceans, and leaking toxic chemicals, but there may be ways to mitigate its damage. Beginning in 2017, one of the world's largest plastic producers, Dow Chemical, began building roads with recycled plastic as a way to reduce waste. Their combined efforts have saved 220,000 pounds of waste from ending up in landfills.
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+16 +2Researchers, set an example: fly less
The world is warming and ecosystems are dying. To avoid disastrous climatic change, massive reductions in CO2 emissions are required in all sectors, reaching net-zero globally no later than 2050. This requires an unprecedented and rapid change in our ways of life. In this, the world of research is challenged for two reasons. First, researchers are the source of the increasing number of warnings about the state of our climate and biodiversity, and their credibility would be damaged by not setting an example.
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+24 +6How One Crash 10 Years Ago Helped Keep 90 Million Flights Safe
Investigators never figured out precisely why the pilot abruptly sent the Colgan Air turboprop into a fatal dive 10 years ago as it neared Buffalo, N.Y. But they did learn enough from the Feb. 12, 2009, crash, which killed 50 people, to make it one of the most important milestones in the history of aviation safety, leading to changes in everything from pilot training to managing fatigue.
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+33 +4Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'?
The Norwegian government's groundbreaking $40 billion infrastructure project includes plans to build submerged floating tunnels in fjords.
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+31 +8Chicago Is So Ridiculously Cold That the Railroad Tracks Need to Be on Fire to Keep the Trains Moving
There are over 140,000 miles of privately-owned standard-gauge rail in the United States, vital to the transportation of billions of tons of freight and people. Occasionally, it gets really cold where some of those train tracks sit. Like right now, in Chicago, where Wednesday’s high temperature is expected to be thirteen degrees below zero. Those temperatures are potentially deadly for humans, and deforming for the long pieces of metal that trains ride on.
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+19 +7Researchers find that e-scooters are a fun, easy way to go to the ER
"This is a very important technological innovation that has a significant public health impact."
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+21 +3Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
A Boeing Co. flying car designed to whisk passengers over congested city streets and dodge skyscrapers completed its first test flight on Tuesday, offering a peek into the future of urban transportation the aerospace giant and others are seeking to shape.
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