public transit
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You Could Pay Your Public Transport Fare With A Tap Of Your Phone
It’s a dream of busy transit riders to be able to quickly and conveniently pay fares with the one thing that we always seem to have handy — our phones. In today’s Android Pay demo at Google I/O, we got to see the reality that Tube-riding Londoners will soon experience.
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Minivans Are The Future
The news that Google’s next self-driving car will be a modified Chrysler Pacifica hybrid has quickly elevated “minivan” from the punchlines of dad jokes to a totally serious solution for our transportation troubles. It’s not surprising at all. Zipping a bunch of people and their stuff around a city safely is exactly what minivans were…
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America’s Public Transit Is Broken, And It’s Their Fault
When was the last time you rode a bus? In the US, it just doesn’t happen, and that’s one of the reasons why the entire country’s public transport system is in a shambles.
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7 Autonomous Vehicle Ideas That Need To Happen Now
President Obama reently announced plans to earmark a whopping $US4 billion for autonomous vehicle research. These funds will be dispersed to pilot programs all over the US during the next decade — but where and how the money is spent will determine just how big a step forward Obama’s plan really is.