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...Weston said: “We believe lighter than air technology has the capacity to speed up humanitarian aid by reaching remote locations with little infrastructure, and to lower carbon emissions for air and cargo transportation...
...global government affairs at Cruise, called the decision a “historic industry milestone” that would put the company in a position “to compete with traditional ridehail, and challenge an unsafe, inaccessible transportation...
...The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees street transport, has called for the rollout to slow down....
...Some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers have spent the last decade writing code for driverless cars to expertly manoeuvre around the most complex streets in San Francisco....
...What we’re aiming to do is to actually create what is, in essence, a new mode of transportation that fixes all those underlying issues.”...
...The future of transportation is already here — but even by the standards of new technology, it is very unevenly distributed....
...“We all agree that if the [San Francisco] Bay Area is going to continue to be the centre of tech excellence and creativity we’re going to have to solve our problems of housing and transportation,” said John...
...The 48-year-old former Expedia head will be set the task of turning around a $62.5bn company that has become a symbol of the worst aspects of Silicon Valley....
...On the timescale of Silicon Valley, Waymo is the grandfather of the self-driving car sector....
...ROCHAEL SOPER ADRANLYGeneral counselIdeo Ms Adranly’s role at the Silicon Valley-based design business is unusual in that she spends much of her time advising clients....
...“There’s an old-school ‘pillar of the community’ thing that happens when you roll out a transportation system for a city.”...
...Gox or its Delaware subsidiary, Mutum Sigillum, LLC....
...A spokesman for the consortium, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, says that only the city has the authority to raise rates....
...“This would be the cheapest and fastest” way to solve the transportation problem, he says....
...Project Better Place will target “transportation islands” – places with dense populations where the large majority of drives are short....
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