Collaborate Disseminate
Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this ‘jumboization’ surgery is becoming very common. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.Continue Re… Continue reading Watch: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
The public (or at least, the rich public) will soon be able to take a break from their luxury cruise to ride a luxury submersible. Triton Submarines has delivered its first Triton 660/9 AVA to a cruise company to take passengers into the depths in styl… Continue reading Video: Spacious bubble-sub lets you tour the sea floor in first class
Somebody must really have it in for Cruise, because the bad press just keeps piling up for the robo-taxi company. We’ve highlighted many of the company’s woes in this space, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 12, 2023
“As California goes, so goes the nation.” That adage has been true on and off for the last 100 years or so, and it’s true again now that GM’s Cruise …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 29, 2023
OK, it’s official — everyone hates San Francisco’s self-driving taxi fleet. Or at least so it seems, if this video of someone vandalizing a Cruise robotaxi is an accurate reflection …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 17, 2023
We mentioned last week how robotaxi provider Cruise was having a no-good, very bad week, after one of their driverless taxis picked a fight with a semi, and it was …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 27, 2023
To mark its 130th anniversary, Oslo-based cruise and ferry company Hurtigruten Norway has released its concept of the eco-friendly cruise ship of tomorrow. Called Sea Zero, it would use a raft of new technologies, including battery-powered propulsion a… Continue reading All-electric Sea Zero concept ship promises zero-carbon cruising
Despite what some people might tell you, self-driving cars aren’t really on the market yet. Instead, there’s a small handful of startups and big tech companies that are rapidly developing …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Do Self Driving Cars Keep Causing Traffic Jams?
A fully autonomous, commercial robo-taxi service with no backup drivers is about to launch in San Francisco, after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued its first-ever Driverless Deployment Permit to GM subsidiary Cruise.Continue Rea… Continue reading California permits Cruise to launch fully driverless taxi services
Some 247 of the passengers aboard the cruise MS Zaandam that faced coronavirus infection are now having to deal with an entirely different problem that of an unintentional data breach. We often read about data breaches and assume they’re the resu… Continue reading Canadian Authorities Email Private Details of 247 MS Zaandam Cruise Passengers