Transport
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The future of transport is up for grabs, and automakers are under intense pressure to get ahead of the self-driving revolution or face a bleak future. Ford's Australian President and CEO used a public forum in Sydney this week to address the challenges and opportunities ahead.
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On April 4, 2017, the world's largest boring machine broke through to the open air. Called Bertha,the story of how it made its journey under the skyscrapers of the port city is not only a tale of a remarkable machine, but also of proving the old adage that what can go wrong will go wrong.
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One year ago, German company e-volo caught our attention by sending its crazy 18-rotor Volocopter into the sky with a human aboard. It has now made some revisions and this week unveiled a sleeker Volocopter 2, which it plans to start testing next year.
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With a few different players now in the game, the race is on to get the Hyperloop up and running. For LA-based startup Hyperloop One, that means rolling into Dubai with photos of its full-scale test track and a few renderings of what the first Middle Eastern Hyperloop stations might look like.
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Hyperloop crossed another milestone in January with the very first test runs being performed in a vacuum as part of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. New Atlas caught up with VicHyper, one of 27 teams who converged on SpaceX HQ, to chat about how the competition went and what happens next.
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One of the technological oddities of the 1980s is making a comeback of sorts. The nephew of Sir Clive Sinclair – the man responsible for the famous but flawed C5 – is marketing an updated version of the diminutive electric vehicle called the Iris eTrike.
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Uber has aggregated over six years of trip data into a new website called Movement, which analyzes travel times and traffic across cities the ride-sharing company has been operating in.
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Fresh from making it easier to spot your ride, Uber is now making it easier to get to the people you're actually off to meet. The ride-sharing service will now let users book rides to a location based on the reliable accuracy of a friend's phone, rather than their not always dependable directions.
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It's quiet… Too quiet. Although the silky near-silence of an EV in motion is usually a good thing, the NHTSA has announced a new safety standard, that would require new hybrid and electric vehicles to emit warning sounds to alert pedestrians, particularly the visually impaired, to their presence.
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An adventurous spirit landed German-born Alexander Wopper in the southern Chilean city of Valdivia 30 years ago, and it's that same spirit that emboldened him to breathe new life into the underused river that cuts right through its center.
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Although Hyperloop One has been quick to raise funds, grow its staff and demo its basic tech, we've still been offered little idea of what its Hyperloop might look like. Danish architect BIG has given us a glimpse of a system conceived to integrate with society and infrastructure.
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Who said getting around needs to be a slog? Not Vanda Electrics, that's for sure. Fresh from unveiling plans for its country's first home-grown hypercar earlier this year, the Singaporean firm is now showing off a new mini motorbike designed for clean, cost-effective and quirky urban commuting.
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