Transportation
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A Missouri bill would enable self-driving taxis but it would open roads to autonomous semitrucks, prompting pushback from commercial drivers. Supporters include disability rights advocates. -
State Department of Motor Vehicles offices will temporarily cease operations mid-month to bring the first part of a multiyear project online. The initiative will modernize a great deal of legacy tech.
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California-based company Coco Robotics announced a pilot program in the Heights neighborhood last week, nearly a year after Uber Eats teamed with Avride for downtown robot delivery service.
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The autonomous vehicles testing will be limited to the private 300-acre industrial park, with legislation required before they can hit the public streets of New York. They will move an estimated 500 passengers per day.
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The Texas transportation hub is one of the latest to begin public testing of self-driving shuttles from Easy Mile. Travelers can now ride from the Barbara Jordan terminal to rental car and ground transportation areas.
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Midstate Traffic Control Inc. is beginning the first phase of the upgrade with 39 of Norman’s 153 traffic signals, including signals on primary corridors such as Boyd, Lindsey and a few on Highway 9.
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The city of Boston's former CIO will lead the new foundation, which governs the transportation-focused Mobility Data Specification. The nation's three largest cities and Microsoft are among the foundation's members.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has a plan to boost the state's electric vehicle infrastructure by adding fast-charge public stations at 23 sites along major interstates and throughout the Miami metro area.
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Shared e-scooter programs may seem like a green way to get around, but these small vehicles can have big environmental footprints.
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Alabama’s capital city has entered into a three-year agreement after a six-month pilot that saw roughly 80 garbage trucks there outfitted with the RUBICONSmartCity platform to better manage routes and maintenance.
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A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board, one of the federal agencies investigating the crash, says the victim engaged the Autopilot system about 10 seconds before the crash.
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Once fully autonomous driving is legalized by lawmakers, the function will also be available while the vehicle is in transit as well as while parked, Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, announced.
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Optibus, which makes cloud-based software to manage public transportation, has added functionality to allow users to work on multiple bus routes at the same time, hoping it will allow for more rider-focused scheduling.
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A Consumer Watchdog report highlights what it describes as the key security flaw in connected vehicles, noting that the potential vulnerability is growing because of the increasing number of such vehicles on the roads.
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The new $45 million SMARTCenter opened at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio to test autonomous vehicle technologies. Planning for the facility began about five years ago.
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The company, one of several companies led by Elon Musk, is proposing huge tunnel projects in Chicago, Las Vegas and San Jose, Calif. It just got an injection of capital as it pursues those efforts.
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The city will be the third in the last year to welcome the on-demand transportation to local streets. Lime will likely dispatch its scooters sometime before the University of Central Oklahoma fall semester begins Aug. 20.
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Researchers found that using technology created “potentially unsafe distractions” for everyone, but those in an older study group were at a higher risk and took anywhere from 4.7 to 8.6 seconds longer to do set tasks.
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Like so many other rapidly growing cities, Austin, Texas, is dealing with considerable congestion and a daunting outlook for the future. But, new recommendations are reframing the conversation and offering officials options.
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Renewing vehicle registration through the new mobile app will cost an additional $2 fee, which Oklahoma officials say is well worth its price because of the time and effort it will save users.
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City officials said the scooters, which have flooded San Diego recently, were removed for violating a new city ordinance that prohibits such devices from being too close to special events, such as Comic-Con.
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