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– From the February 2018 issue – Technology is forecast to so thoroughly transform the automotive landscape that not even the idea of ownership is expected to survive the next generation or two unchanged. The latest twist: the car subscription program. With this model, rather than making payments on a single car, you pay a […]
According to a report from CBS Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department spent $ 10 million to go green with a fleet of BMW i3 electric cars. CBS‘s David Goldstein’s investigation finds, though, that many of those cars sit unused, while others are used for personal errands. CBS scoured department records, and found a […]
Published time: 2 Dec, 2017 15:56 China has created a new weapon to destroy one of the biggest threats to its aircraft carriers – pesky jellyfish. Dubbed the “Jellyfish shredder,” the Chinese weapon simply destroys the fish by chopping them into thousands of pieces. The threat of jellyfish sabotaging aircraft carriers is very real as […]
Avis Budget Group Inc said on Thursday it has launched in the Kansas City, Mo., area its first fleet of cars that are fully connected to the internet, other vehicles, and to the car rental company via wireless technology. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company’s so-called Mobility Lab will connect all 5,000 cars in its Kansas City […]
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The year 2017 has not been kind to the US Navy, which has suffered a series of accidents –with a total of 20 fatalities – in the Pacific Rim region. Everything from sleep deprivation to poor training has been blamed. The latest incident to rock the US Navy – specifically the Seventh Fleet, which is […]
IN APRIL 1956 the world’s first container ship—the Ideal X—set sail from New Jersey. A year later in Seattle the world’s first commercially successful airliner, Boeing’s 707, made its maiden flight. Both developments slashed the cost of moving cargo and people. Boeing still makes half the world’s airliners. But America’s shipping fleet, 17% of the […]
Cunard is a stalwart of the global cruising industry. The glamorous UK cruise line is adding an exciting new member to its impressive fleet. A fourth ship is officially on the way, but it won’t set sail until 2022. Cunard’s parent company, Carnival Corporation & PLC, has signed a memorandum of agreement with Fincantieri shipyard […]
The commander of the US Pacific Fleet has announced his retirement after being passed up for a major promotion. It comes after two US Navy vessels collided with commercial ships in the Pacific over the summer, killing 17 sailors. Admiral Scott Swift made the unexpected announcement on Facebook, after learning that he would not be […]
Researchers at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) presented a mission plan today at the European Planetary Science Congress that would allow scientists to observe hundreds of asteroids over the course of just a few years. Their plan is to send 50 nanoprobes — small space instruments — into the asteroid belt that lies between Mars […]
