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Maria Gurova

The Personal Blog of Zack Kanter - How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million J... - 1 views

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Technology Economy Environment transportation market autonomous transport self-driving car Uber Tesla transportation cloud Shared Economy efficiency Energy

shared by Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • . Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030
  • They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.
  • Morgan Stanley’s research shows that cars are driven just 4% of the time,5 which is an astonishing waste considering that the average cost of car ownership is nearly $9,000 per year.6
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  • The car purchasers of the future will not be you and me – cars will be purchased and operated by ride sharing and car sharing companies.
  • , it is unlikely that major automakers like General Motors, Ford, and Toyota will survive the leap.
  • while startup automakers like Tesla will thrive on a smaller number of fleet sales to operators like Uber by offering standardized models with fewer options.
  • 884,000 people are employed in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, and an additional 3.02 million in the dealer and maintenance network.22 Truck, bus, delivery, and taxi drivers account for nearly 6 million professional driving jobs. Virtually all of these 10 million jobs will be eliminated within 10-15 years
  • Maria Gurova on 05 Nov 15
     
    an article about autonomous transportation and how disruptive they might be not only for the car and transport industry but for entire economy
al_semenchenko

The driverless truck is coming, and it's going to automate millions of jobs | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology economy jobs automated cars Transportation efficency productivity self-driving transportation driverless cars

shared by al_semenchenko on 26 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam.
  • the technology would effectively double the output of the U.S. transportation network at 25 percent of the cost.
  • While the efficiency gains are real — too real to pass up — the technology will have tremendous adverse effects as well. There are currently more than 1.6 million Americans working as truck drivers, making it the most common job in 29 states.
Anna Dubinina

GoEuro Gets $45M To Make Long Distance Trips By Public Transport As Easy As Uber | Tech... - 1 views

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CIS society public transport trips distance accessibility

shared by Anna Dubinina on 09 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • European travel planner platform GoEuro has today announced a $45 million Series B round, led by Goldman Sachs
  • It’s more fitting to think of GoEuro as a long distance version of another European transportation startup
  • While maintaining its pan-European travel focus, GoEuro does also support worldwide air travel routes
Maria Gurova

Tesla's Model S Has New Autopilot Tech--And I Just Sat Behind The Wheel | Fast Company ... - 0 views

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Technology tesla transportation Market autonomous transport autonomous vehicle self-driving car accessibility

shared by Maria Gurova on 16 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Tesla is rolling out version 7.0 of its software, and with it new autopilot features that allow the car to stay in its lane, change lanes, and parallel park itself.
  • the new Autosteer feature. This is designed specifically for highway driving, and when engaged keeps the car in its lane. When you need to change lanes, you flip your turn signal and the car will move over on its own when it determines it’s safe to do so.
  • That "hands-on" detail is an important one. CEO Elon Musk emphasizes that the update is a public beta. "We say keep your hands on the wheel because it’s very important to exercise caution at this early stage,"
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  • Musk acknowledges that eventually we’ll not only be able to take our hands off the wheel, but there won’t be a steering wheel to begin with.
  • "This version doesn’t take into account stop signs and stop lights, but a future version will,"
  • "The more miles that are driven the better it will get," says Musk. "People should see the car improve with every passing week."
  • Maria Gurova on 16 Oct 15
     
    Autosteer feature that has been added to the recent update of Tesla vehicles software update is another step toward self-driving cars. In 10 years time the technology might lead to a accessibility of driving to everyone without the necessity of having a driving license 
Maria Gurova

New era of self-driving cars will transform cities - 0 views

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Technology social autonomous transport self-driving car sharing environment city planning smart cities navigation

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves
  • blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. "Your" car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family - or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighbourhood, social media circles, or city.
  • This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today
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  • Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
  • Real-time data planning and smart routing are already a reality, and more advances are coming in the wake of "intelligent city" initiatives around the world,
  • Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows "magically" pass through one another and avoid collision
  • Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to com
  • We are all familiar with viruses crashing our computers, but what if a virus crashes our cars? Resolving these issues is crucial, but none is insurmountable.
Maria Gurova

Virgin Galactic Wants to Fly You From LA to Tokyo (Through Space, In One Hour) | Mother... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • When Virgin Galactic finally takes its first tourists to space, it'll just be a a stepping stone to what the company's ultimate mission is: Flying people from one place on Earth to another place on Earth, just like any other airline. Except in this version, you'll travel through space and be able to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in an hour.
  • He's discussed creating a supersonic passenger plane himself, but why settle for an incremental change when, if it works, "point-to-point suborbital space transportation" promises to be a complete paradigm shift?
  • Virgin's daring, sometimes insane chairman Richard Branson has long had his eyes on a supersonic commercial airline
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  • The Concorde failed for a lot of reasons, not least of which the fact that it was very, very expensive. So far, hundreds of people  have shelled out $250,000 to take a quick suborbital spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, but are they going to be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to save 12 hours flying halfway around the world?
Maria Gurova

Dawn of the iCar? Apple said to be secretly working on design for an electric people-ca... - 0 views

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Technology Apple self-driving car autonomous transport transportation market

shared by Maria Gurova on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Hundreds of people at Apple are said to be secretly working on a design for an electric people-carrier which has been given the code name “Titan”. So far, the technology firm has declined to comment on the project
  • The Titan project was reportedly signed off almost a year ago by Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook, who has assigned vice president of product design, Steve Zadesky, to lead the group
Vladimir Antonov

Self-driving cars: Honda aims for highway-capable model by 2020- Nikkei Asian Review - 0 views

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Technology science self-driving sensing sensors mapping environment transportation autonomous transportation leisure access vs ownership

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 27 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • - Honda Motor plans to offer cars that can drive themselves on highways by around 2020
  • With Toyota Motor and Nissan Motor having announced their plans, the three largest domestic carmakers now have timelines for self-driving vehicles.
  • Honda this year started adopting what it calls Sensing technologies
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  • automatic braking, help avoid hitting pedestrians and perform other functions
  • Autonomous cars are expected to reduce traffic congestion and accidents, in addition to easing the burden of long-distance driving for the elderly and others
  • speeding up development of related technologies such as mapping features and sensors.
  • Western automakers and technology giants like Google are also developing self-driving vehicles
  • Vladimir Antonov on 27 Oct 15
     
    Honda Motor plans to offer cars that can drive themselves on highways by around 2020, part of an attempt by Japanese automakers to move ahead of foreign rivals in this new high-tech field.
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
Maria Gurova

What It Really Feels Like to Ride in a Self-Driving Car | TIME.com - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google’s project to change transportation by designing cars which can drive themselves is getting less secretive
  • a trip which will be far less tedious when I can do it while reading, answering email or otherwise being productive.
  • Sergey Brin has talked about self-driving cars being a reality for “everyday people” within five years–and he said that a year and a half ago, which would suggest he was thinking about 2017
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  • From a technical standpoint, the car uses lasers, radar and cameras to construct a 3D image of the world around it, and uses that to make driving decisions.
  • The driver has a small heads-up display which summarizes what the car’s vision system sees, with color-coded indicators for other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other things it needs to contend with.
  • The Google cars drive safely in part because they’re programmed to be relentlessly cautious: Unlike many a human driver, they won’t push their luck.
Maria Gurova

Якунин предложил потратить триллионы на «Транс-Евразийский пояс развития»: Го... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 03 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Чтобы стать цивилизационным центром на евроазиатском континенте, России нужно реализовать масштабный проект под названием «Транс-Евразийский пояс развития» (ТЕПР).
  • западные страны навязывают России чуждые ей ценности, в частности, развитие экономики ради улучшения количественных показателей. В рамках такой модели развития Россия теряет присущие ей духовность и нравственность, отметил глава РЖД
  • руководитель монополии отмечал, что финансово-экономический кризис, через который сегодня проходит мир, является в том числе кризисом нравственным. По его словам, создание нового геополитического экономического кластера, которым может стать «Транс-Евразийский пояс развития», позволит преодолеть этот кризис
  • Maria Gurova on 03 Aug 15
     
    developing road infrastructure as a way to fight for the Russian moral values and standards of living 
Maria Gurova

Meet the Robots That Will Help Run a Tokyo Airport - 0 views

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Technology Social science robotics Humanization of Robots transportation transformative ageing population Japan workforce Future of Talent

shared by Maria Gurova on 09 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Last week, Japan’s ominously named robotics company Cyberdyne announced new technologies it’ll start rolling out at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport in September: Two robots, one exoskeleton. One robot shuttles unwieldy luggage, another cleans the facility, and the exo assists with heavy lifting.
  • Japan’s government actively funds robotics R&D, with aims to triple the nation’s robotics market to $22 billion in the next six years, and is keen on showing off some impressive technology at Tokyo’s Summer Olympics in 2020
Anna Dubinina

Looking at supersonic airliners - 0 views

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Technology CIS plane concorde travel transportation air travel supersonic aircraft Transformative

shared by Anna Dubinina on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • The latest new concept design is called Skreemr, which -- if developed -- supposedly would carry 75 passengers from London to New York in 30 minutes
  • unlike rockets, scramjet engines would burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of having to carry heavy tanks full of oxygen
  • A hybrid rocket and jet engine is being developed by Reaction Engines with joint funding by the UK and BAE Systems, which could one day lead to a new supersonic airliner
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  • Aerion is developing a $110 million, 12-passenger business jet capable of hitting Mach 1.6 -- or close to 2,000 kilometers per hour
  • Expected delivery of this new supersonic plane: 2022.
anna_nelidova

Exclusive: Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup | Reuters - 2 views

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Economic Wal-Mart on demand commercial drone use new distribution system home delivery retail logistics transport infrastructure access vs ownership

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  • anna_nelidova on 05 Nov 15
     
    After conducting indoor tests of small unmanned aircraft systems Wal-Mart applied for permission to test drones outdoors for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories.
alexbelov

UK government invests £60 million in Skylon 'super-plane' that could cut Lond... - 0 views

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Technology travel aerospace fast flight transportation ADD on demand global mobility connected world

shared by alexbelov on 13 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • UK government invests £60 million in Skylon 'super-plane' that could cut London to Sydney flights to just four hours
  • Its 'Sabre' engine - a hybrid rocket and jet propulsion system which theoretically allows travel anywhere on Earth in four hours or less - could become a reality in a decade.
  • A full ground-based engine test is currently planned for 2020.
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  • The super-plane will rely on cooling an incoming airstream from 1,000 degrees C to minus 150 C almost instantly, at close to 1/100th of a second.
  • alexbelov on 13 Nov 15
     
    Aerospace flight research aiming to speed up long-distance flights. However investment volume seems inadequate for such a huge project.
asibilev

Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»? - 3 views

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CIS Technology transport prosumers DICO crypto-currency Bitcoin Blockchain Economy

shared by asibilev on 25 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»?
  • После удачного тестирования системы Ethereum консорциумом крупнейших мировых банков появилось сообщение о первой небанковской компании, которая будет работать на принципах заключения контрактов, уже несколько лет используемых криптовалютой Bitcoin
  • Blockchain грозит изменить мир: в Калифорнии появился сервис такси, создатель которого грозится «похоронить» Uber и подобные ему буквально за несколько месяцев. Arcade City, основанный на принципе Blockchain и созданный бывшим водителем сервиса Uber Кристофером Дэвидом, абсолютно децентрализованный, как распределенная облачная технология: водители и клиенты могут самостоятельно устанавливать в нем тарифы и совершать платежи.
Anna Dubinina

Uber's Testing A New Mass Transit Alternative | TechCrunch - 1 views

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CIS Social transport sharing acess vs. ownership

shared by Anna Dubinina on 09 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Uber is gearing up to pilot a new ride-sharing service in Seattle called uberHOP, in an attempt to get “more butts into the backseats of fewer cars
  • With uberHOP (pictured above), the app will match you with a driver as well as other people going the same way as you. You’ll receive directions on where to jump into the car, and then get dropped off at a pre-determined spot
Maria Gurova

Russia Wants People to Road Trip from New York to London (via Moscow) - 1 views

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Political transportation travel infrastructure Russian Railways transformative

shared by Maria Gurova on 03 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Russian Railways wants to build one, as part of a massive road and rail project that would stretch from New York to London by way of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and continental Europe.
  • The plan is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, and Russian Railway president Vladimir Yakunin proposed it earlier this year.
  • A 520 mile stretch of road would carry travelers — and, presumably, trade goods — west from the Canadian border, through Fairbanks and Nome, to the shores of the Seward Peninsula.
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  • On the other hand, Yakutin may be a plausible successor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, and the two are said to be close personal friends.
  • Even if the TEBD never breaks ground, the idea lends itself to all sorts of speculation. You could, in theory, one day make it from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of Chile using a combination of roads and railways.
  • Maria Gurova on 03 Aug 15
     
    and when you look at the same subject from outside of Russia that might seem like a Transformative scenario rather then Market or Fortress 
isoldatenkova

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better | World... - 1 views

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Technology privacy social Economy

shared by isoldatenkova on 12 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives.
  • In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
  • Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
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  • Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
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