FutureStructure Transportation
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The state is moving toward a future where cars can operate without humans.
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The company's five-year timeline puts it roughly on pace with such competitors as Ford, whose CEO announced plans last month to start selling autonomous cars in five years.
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Building a better transportation network starts with borrowing ideas and best practices from other cities.
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The new bill explicitly prohibits drivers from using cellphones behind the wheel for any distracting activities unless they do so through dictation or other hands-free modes.
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Many consumers have suggested that they want cars that can drive themselves in all conditions, but still give humans the ability to take control if they want.
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The decarbonization of the economy has barely started in much of the country. In California, it’s well underway. The state’s emissions have fallen almost every year since 2007.
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The system photographs license plates with overhead cameras as vehicles pass under gantries over the highway. It charges drivers with E-ZPass transponders or sends bills to those who don’t have them.
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Ford expects its fully autonomous cars to be on the streets by 2021, used first for ride-sharing services in dense urban areas.
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Hybrids, plug-ins and electric cars currently account for only a slim share of the U.S. market, but in 10 years the roads could look very different.
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In partnership with ride-sharing company Grab, NuTonomy, a 50-person startup out of MIT, in August became the first company in the world to do public testing of robot taxis.
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Across the country, transit agencies and ride-sharing services are partnering up. Will those agencies come to regret it?
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The new app allows riders to discreetly report suspicious or illegal activity they see on trains or buses.
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State officials said the U.S. DOT’s policy announcement will change their approach to addressing the topic.
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The administration has offered up a model policy for states to follow when regulating self-driving cars.
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Lyft's John Zimmer believes autonomous cars will change the world around them by opening up unneeded parking spots for parks and major reductions in private car ownership in cities.
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Industry experts cite multiple factors affecting sales of hybrid and electric vehicles in California including falling gasoline prices and the increase in hydrogen fuel cell cars.
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Upon the release of self-driving Uber cars operating in Pittsburgh, the state Public Utilities Commission asked federal officials, as well as the general public, to be involved in discussions of the regulations needed to govern the emerging technology.
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Uber began recruiting its drivers to apply for positions as autonomous vehicle operators to help in the ride-share company’s research endeavors.
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