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Waymo already turned 600 Chrysler Pacifica minivans into self-driving vehicles, but apparently, those aren’t enough for the company’s upcoming taxi service. FCA US has revealed that it’s supplying the former Google self-driving division with thousands of Chrysler Pacific minivans and that delivery will begin in late 2018. Waymo will use the vehicles it’s already testing […]
Evald Jåstad of Norway says he’s “living the dream.” Beloved by locals, he drives a Ford Focus RS as a taxi. Starting his day, he drives his son, Martin to daycare who absolutely loves the RS, shouting, “More gas, more gas!” Transcript: The coolest Taxi Driver in the world. Would you drive a sports car […]
Published time: 22 Dec, 2017 20:16 A hurried drug dealer carrying around 1,000 cannabis joints mistakenly hopped into a police car in the Danish capital thinking it was a taxi. Unlike the man, police officers were “happy” about the mix-up. It was “a big surprise” for the cannabis dealer in Copenhagen’s weed-friendly commune of Christiania, […]
BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Transportation and Logistics Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the EU’s highest court, ruled earlier this week that Uber is a taxi service, as opposed to a technology platform, The New York Times reports. The court’s ruling […]
Published time: 20 Dec, 2017 10:17 The European Union’s top court has ruled the ride-hailing firm Uber should be treated as a transportation service. The ruling pushes the company into the hands of European regulators, which it has previously managed to avoid. “The service provided by Uber connecting individuals with non-professional drivers is covered by […]
Europe’s highest court has ruled that Uber is a transportation company and not some kind of middleman between passengers and drivers, like it has often claimed. The much-anticipated decision opens the door for member nations to impose stricter regulations on the company, especially where it operates the UberPOP service with non-professional drivers. The judges weren’t […]
Waymo faces a slew of challenges if it’s going to get its autonomous taxi service up and running, not the least of which is insurance. Who’s going to cover passengers when there’s no human pilot to help determine who’s responsible? Thankfully, someone has stepped up to the plate. Waymo has struck a deal with insurance […]
Joaquin Phoenix channels Taxi Driver‘s Travis Bickle in Lynne Ramsay‘s intense You Were Never Really Here. We won’t get to see the film for a few months, but audiences who had a chance to catch the film at Cannes earlier this year have already showered Ramsay’s new movie with praise, particularly when it comes to Phoenix’s performance. The new You […]
When you’re driving strangers around all day in New York City, you’re bound to have a few tales to tell. Driving a taxi is an adventure that California boy and MFA grad Ryan Weideman — whose work we recently revisited on Lost at E Minor — was looking for when he landed in the big city in […]
We’ve covered Airbus’s Vahana project, which is the aeronautical company’s endeavor to build a self-flying taxi network, in detail before. Now, it looks as though Airbus has reached a major milestone. The company is ready to test its Vahana flying car after moving it from the company’s headquarters to a dedicated hangar in Pendleton, Oregon, […]
