Collaborate Disseminate
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
Continue reading A Million Zombie Taxis By 2020? It’s Not Going To Happen
Uber CEO said MIT was ‘mathematically incompetent’ for saying drivers earn a net $3.37 an hour. Continue reading After ‘Flawed’ MIT Paper, Uber Drivers Can’t Agree On How Poorly They’re Paid
Douglas Schifter killed himself in front of City Hall this week. Continue reading Before He Died, a New York Taxi Driver Wrote About How the Gig Economy Ruined His Life
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?
This taxi …read more
Continue reading Distributed Air Quality Monitoring via Taxi Fleet
There’s just one catch. Continue reading 3000 Ubers Could Replace NYC’s Entire Taxi Fleet
The government-backed ‘Le.Taxi’ isn’t a real threat — yet. Continue reading France’s Government-Backed Uber Replacement Should Thrill Uber