Shanghai ride-hailers can now call for an AutoX self-driving taxi

Autonomous driving tech company AutoX has partnered with the Alibaba Group’s Amap mobility platform to offer folks in Shanghai the option to hail a ride in an AutoX RoboTaxi.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Self driving cars, Autono… Continue reading Shanghai ride-hailers can now call for an AutoX self-driving taxi

A Million Zombie Taxis By 2020? It’s Not Going To Happen

The tech world has a love for Messianic figures, usually high-profile CEOs of darling companies whose words are hung upon and combed through for hidden meaning, as though they had arrived from above to our venture-capital-backed prophet on tablets of stone. In the past it has been Steve Jobs or …read more

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Distributed Air Quality Monitoring via Taxi Fleet

When [James] moved to Lima, Peru, he brought his jogging habit with him. His morning jaunts to the coast involve crossing a few busy streets that are often occupied by old, smoke-belching diesel trucks. [James] noticed that his throat would tickle a bit when he got back home. A recent study linking air pollution to dementia risk made him wonder how cities could monitor air quality on a street-by-street basis, rather than relying on a few scattered stations. Lima has a lot of taxis, so why wire them up with sensors and monitor the air quality in real-time?

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