Part of the 2022 F-150 Lightning’s genius is that it looks, well, so ordinary. There’s none of Tesla’s Cybertruck silliness, just solid F-150 SuperCrew form and functionality, with the added benefit of extra lockable storage. standard all-wheel drive, and sizzling acceleration. The other part is, in the best Ford tradition, it’s affordable. Prices start at less than S42,000 for the work-spec model and less than $55,000 for mid-spec versions, which is slightly less than what today’s average F-150 buyer spends on their truck and that’s before tax incentives.
The company (NoTraffic) claims its cloud- and artificial-intelligence-based traffic control system can halve rush-hour times in dense urban areas, reduce annual CO2 emissions by a half-billion tons in places like Phoenix/Maricopa County, and slash transportation budgets by 70 percent.
Here's how it works: Sensors perceive, identify, and analyze all traffic approaching each intersection, sharing data to the cloud. Here light timing and traffic flow is adjusted continuously, prioritizing commuting patterns, emergency and evacuation traffic, a temporary parade of bicycles—whatever. Judicious allocation of "green time" means no green or walk-signal time gets wasted.
Coulson had recently outfitted a huge Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter with equipment that could drop 3,000 gallons of water or fire-retardant chemical—about 10 times what the more commonly used Bell 412 helicopter can unload- in a little more than two seconds. Unlike a fixed-wing firebomber such as a Boeing 747 or Lockheed C-130 Hercules, which can carry similar loads, a Chinook doesn’t have to return to an airport to refill. It can stick up water from a river or lake and shuttle back and forth to a fire, dramatically multiplying the tonnage it drops per hour.
The Chinook had another potential advantage: It could fight fire at night. The company had spent a decade working out how pilots could safely fly these copters low to the ground in darkness using night vision goggles
The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person "new city in America" and appointed a world-famous architect to design it.
Now, he just needs somewhere to build it -- and $400 billion in funding.
The former Walmart executive last week unveiled plans for Telosa, a sustainable metropolis that he hopes to create, from scratch, in the American desert. The ambitious 150,000-acre proposal promises eco-friendly architecture, sustainable energy production and a purportedly drought-resistant water system. A so-called "15-minute city design" will allow residents to access their workplaces, schools and amenities within a quarter-hour commute of their homes.
In a survey I did earlier in the year, I was surprised to find auto dealer services were some of the more poorly rated. People complain about the erratic scheduling options, the time it takes for even basic services, the poor hygiene in wait rooms, the scarcity of loaner cars and drop off services, the predatory behavior - they always seem to suggest additional services when they have your car. No wonder there is growing market for mobile services - where they come to you and provide specific support.
AAA has long provided basic services around flat tires, dead batteries etc. With their growing brick and mortar service stores, it is likely their mobile services will grow. Tesla has been delivering a variety of mobile service to its customers.
Services like Safelite have honed car glass replacement or repair at your home, office or on the road. See video below
And there are a growing number of startups aiming at that category. FastCompany profiles RepairSmith.
"RepairSmith’s pricing falls above local budget options. Today, an in-home-driveway oil change on an aging Honda CR-V in Portland, Oregon, costs $97, which is far north of the $39 coupon option available at a nearby Jiffy Lube. An air conditioning compressor replacement costs $1,583, double what a local garage charges. But neither requires the CR-V’s owner to lose hours of work while marooned at a garage, nor multiple trips to the garage for diagnosis and then repair, nor sharing air with a cabbie on taxi rides back and forth to the garage during the repair."
The trial project is being led by U.K.-based Fetch.ai and Munich-based blockchain company Datarella and was just launched at one of the central Munich offices owned by Connex Buildings. The goal is to control the pricing and use of the building’s parking spaces dynamically, and to disincentivize people from driving to work by rewarding them with public transit passes for all the time they aren’t using the parking garage.
The Tavistock Development Corp. said it was constructing a Jetsons-like aviation facility in Orlando's Lake Nona area, the mixed-use planned community it built. Lake Nona already is home to several medical and research facilities.
The aircraft will be supplied by Lilium, a Germany-based aviation company that manufacturers the industry’s only five-passenger “electric vertical takeoff and landing" aircraft. At the moment, the Lilium Jets can travel up to 185 miles (298 kilometers) on a one-hour charge.
Taken together, the new trees and cycleways, community facilities and social housing, homes and workplaces all reflect a potentially transformative vision for urban planners: the 15-minute city. “The 15-minute city represents the possibility of a decentralized city,” says Carlos Moreno, a scientific director and professor specializing in complex systems and innovation at University of Paris 1. “At its heart is the concept of mixing urban social functions to create a vibrant vicinity”—replicated, like fractals, across an entire urban expanse.
“Our waste vehicles are out and about every day, so we thought why not tap into this network to get the latest information on the status of our roads.
“By equipping waste trucks with videoing technology and using AI to identify potential issues, we’re able to collect up-to-date information and get to fixing our roads quicker”.
The program began in early 2019 with Council’s Asset Management team and ICT department working together with tech suppliers to fit a Council garbage truck with a consumer-grade dashcam, GPS and 4G modem.
Video footage captured by the camera is then transmitted to the cloud, where AI methods are used to identify potholes, cracking, line markings, and signs while also protecting privacy.
On one side is Central Japan Railway Co.’s 9 trillion yen ($86 billion) maglev that’s expected to connect Tokyo and Osaka by 2037. On the other is China’s 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) on-again, off-again project that will run between Shanghai and the eastern port city of Ningbo. After several false starts, it’s now forecast to be completed by around 2035. Japan’s is more expensive largely because of the amount of excavation that will be required to tunnel through the mountainous countryside. If Japan and China are able to unveil their long-distance projects successfully by their due dates, it should give them a leg up when they look to export the next-generation technology, rail experts say.
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