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Reinventing Wheels, a report by Tom Standage, Deputy Editor and Head of Digital Strategy at The Economist, predicts that at least initially, and possibly even in the long term, a large proportion of self-driving cars will be taxis of some sort. The future will be about selling rides, not cars ...
Hyperloop trains, flying on supersonic aircraft, traveling on smart motorways or getting from A to B in autonomous drones — when consumers hear about how travel will look in the future, they are excited, but apprehensive, according to a new survey commissioned by Travelzoo in partnership with ITB Berlin ...
European spending on smart city initiative related technologies is expected to reach $19 billion in 2018, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) ...
Citizen engagement is critical to the success of smart cities, according to Gartner. Smart city initiatives are no longer about optimized traffic patterns, parking management, efficient lighting and improvements to public works ...
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership launched SharedStreets, a first-of-its-kind transportation data standard and platform for public-private partnerships that allows cities to work with companies to manage streets, reduce traffic deaths, and prepare for the unprecedented technological advancement emerging in cities’ transportation networks ...
Auto manufacturers are definitively gearing their focus on self-driving, connected and electric cars, according to the Digital Auto Report 2017 ...
While consumers appear more apt to embrace emerging technology in the form of autonomous vehicles, many are brushing off newer powertrain options in favor of traditional engines ...
Consumers are warming up to the concept of fully self-driving vehicles, but some roadblocks may lay ahead for automakers, according to the 2018 Deloitte Global Automotive Consumer Study ...
According to a new report from Tractica, worldwide revenue from sales of autonomous trucks and buses reached $84 million in 2017 and the market will continue to develop at a strong pace over the next few years with more competition within the industry, providing significant opportunities to various industry participants, and reaching global revenue of $35 billion by the end of 2022 ...
One quarter (25 percent) of car owners are not actively using their connected car’s features — a figure which includes 11 percent who don’t even know if their vehicle has the technology, according to a new study by Kantar TNS ...
