transportation

Uber Mulls Food Delivery Via Drones
Uber Mulls Food Delivery Via Drones
October 22, 2018  |  Delivery

As Uber seeks to attract investors ahead of a potential initial public offering (IPO) with aspirations beyond ridesharing, food delivery in the skies might be...

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Uber Mulls Bringing On Minority Investor For Self-Driving Unit
Uber Mulls Bringing On Minority Investor For Self-Driving Unit
October 17, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Uber, the ride-hailing company, is reportedly mulling bringing on a minority investor to help it bankroll its self-driving unit. Financial Times, citing two people familiar...

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Waze Carpool Now Available Nationwide
Waze Carpool Now Available Nationwide
October 10, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Waze Carpool, the Google-owned app that connects people with rides, announced Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the service is now available nationwide. In a blog post,...

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Lime Coming To Canada Via Partnership With University Of Waterloo
Lime Coming To Canada Via Partnership With University Of Waterloo
October 02, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Lime, the scooter sharing startup, is gearing up to expand into Canada, planning to release a small fleet of e-scooters in Waterloo, Ontario. According to news...

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Driverless Trucks Hog the Highway to an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Driverless Trucks Hog the Highway to an Autonomous Vehicle Future
October 02, 2018  |  Ecosystems

Driverless cars are indeed coming to roads soon enough — the U.K.’s transport secretary, in fact, recently predicted that those vehicles would appear there within four...

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Driverless Cars Coming To UK In Next Three To Four Years
Driverless Cars Coming To UK In Next Three To Four Years
October 01, 2018  |  Innovation

Driverless vehicles are coming to the U.K. in the next three to four years, the country’s Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said on Monday (Oct. 1)....

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With Audi Select, Automaker Pilots Subscription Rentals
With Audi Select, Automaker Pilots Subscription Rentals
September 25, 2018  |  Retail

Luxury automakers are test driving new business models: Audi has announced a pilot program dubbed Audi Select that allows customers to borrow from a small...

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Taxify CEO On Ride-Hailing’s Flexible Road From Cars To eScooters
Taxify CEO On Ride-Hailing’s Flexible Road From Cars To eScooters
September 21, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Short ride, long-term appeal? Taxify, the ride-hailing company, is branching out into eScooters in Paris (with plans for more European market rollouts), a change to...

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Bird And Lime Have Provided 20M Rides Combined
Bird And Lime Have Provided 20M Rides Combined
September 20, 2018  |  Ridesharing

Bird and Lime, the bike and scooter-sharing companies, have provided 20 million rides combined since their launches, underscoring the adoption of these services. According to...

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