Mobility & Transportation - Issue #49

by Bryan Reimer, Research Scientist MIT AgeLab & Associate Director New England University Transportation Center From AI Innovation of Sweden seminar

Some of the technological pillars that will be supporting connected cars.

In Japan some car-sharing users don’t use the vehicles to actually drive them service operator Orix Auto Corp. says. The number of people who use the cars to have a place to sleep, eat, etc. is growing.

AXA Germany and TIER Mobility start a Europe-wide insurance cooperation, as the legal operating permit for scooters has come into effect in Germany.

The opinions expressed in this essay do reflect my personal views only. The original version of this article has been published on China Tech Blog.

The soon-to-expand alliance between Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG has the potential to transform the global auto industry and increase pressure on other manufacturers developing electric and self-driving cars, analysts said.

Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo’s first commercial autonomous truck deal shows how it is bundling services to generate revenue from a technology that is years away from wide deployment.

Refraction, a new autonomous delivery robot company that came out of stealth Wednesday at TC Sessions: Mobility, sees opportunity in areas most AV startups are avoiding: regions with the worst weather.

Tesla sued Cao earlier this year for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to Autopilot and bringing them to Chinese EV startup Xiaopeng Motors, also known as Xmotors or XPeng, which is backed by tech giant Alibaba.

All new models of electric cars sold in the European Union must now make artificial noise when travelling at low speeds. Acoustic vehicle alert systems will need to be installed in new models of both hybrid and electric cars.

A team of medical researchers with UCLA and UC Irvine published a paper suggesting that places in California might be able to use data from the crowdsourced traffic app Waze to predict crashes and cut emergency response times.

When cities fail to provide basic amenities like seats at bus stops, community organizations step in with creative DIY fixes.

European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet connected cars on Thursday, rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed by Volkswagen.

Failing to properly regulate a new technology can be bad for companies, users, and communities, as Paris’ scooter crisis shows.

Self-driving vehicles are often trumpeted as the answer to the millions of injuries and deaths that occur each year on the world’s roadways. Developers and proponents of the technology argue that an automated system that can see, hear, react and make better decisions than humans will reduce the number of crashes that occur every year.

Maniv Mobility, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based mobility venture capital firm, closed its second fund, at $100M.