Mobility & Transportation - Issue #48

Gabe Klein shares some wisdom on mobility data.

Waymo has been given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its robotaxis. The approval is a milestone for the company as it begins to ramp up toward a commercial service.

Yes, you read that right… a 2-person electric scooter. And that even though there are still a lot of legal challenges for regular e-scooters.

MONET Technologies, a joint venture launched by Softbank and Toyota to provide on-demand mobility services eventually with an autonomous module bus, has five new Japanese partners: Isuzu Motors, Suzuki Motor Corp., Subaru, Daihatsu and Mazda.

Google sister company Sidewalk Labs outlines a plan for a 12-acre lot with affordable housing, a pneumatic tube for garbage, and room for autonomous vehicles.

Uber said any new bodies set up to regulate self-driving cars should not “impede innovation or create artificial barriers”.

For all coders out there: Source code of new version 5.0.0 of apollo - Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform. 

Dutch company Lightyear has debuted a prototype solar electric car that can travel 450 miles on a single charge. 

Panasonic and the Utah Department of Transportation have teamed up to create a network of smart roadways to serve connected cars.

The geolocation demands of new mobility services have created an explosion in mapping startups that think they can take on Google and Apple.

“Ambient computing” and other sensor-driven technologies are promising to make cars of the very near future much safer.

Google announced on Thursday that it is introducing new transit crowdedness predictions in its Maps app. Now, you can see how crowded your bus, train, or tube is likely to be before heading out on your commute.

Google’s wayfinding company wants to help drivers and riders find each other on its navigation app—and ease traffic congestion along the way.

Chinese delivery app Meituan plans to introduce an Amazon Prime-like subscription service that bundles free rides from their bikershare subsidiary Mobike.

Dutch banking giant ABN Amro has announced the successful transport of the first paperless, immediately funded, door-to-door traceable container from South Korea to the Netherlands using the blockchain-based Deliver…