Transportation

Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation

After a successful experiment with free public transport for all citizens in Tallinn, Estonia wants to become the world’s first free public transport nation. Allan Alaküla explains why this is a good idea. Tallinn, known for its digital government and successful tech startups, is often referred to as Europe’s innovation capital.

Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods

Electric School Buses Can Be Backup Batteries For the US Power Grid

Early thoughts on Uber’s flying car from an aviation engineer

Rotor sails could reduce cargo ship fuel consumption by 20%

Europe Takes First Steps in Electrifying World’s Shipping Fleets

Norway is already a global leader in the adoption of electric vehicles, spurred in large measure by the hydropower that provides 98 percent of the country’ electricity. So moving into the forefront of tackling a major global environmental challenge — decarbonizing the world’s shipping fleet — was a natural step for the country. Other nations — including Finland, the Netherlands, China, Denmark, and Sweden — also are beginning to launch electric ships.

A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images

Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber

Location and navigation using global positioning systems (GPS) is deeply embedded in our daily lives, and is particularly crucial to Uber’s services. To orchestrate quick, efficient pickups, our GPS technologies need to know the locations of matched riders and drivers, as well as provide navigation guidance from a driver’s current location to where the rider needs to be picked up, and then, to the rider’s chosen destination. For this process to work seamlessly, the location estimates for riders and drivers need to be as precise as possible.

Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars

Autonomous braking: ‘The most significant development since the safety belt’

Airbus and Boeing are exploring the viability of electric planes

Virgin Hyperloop One shows off new futuristic travel pod

It’s an interesting time for Virgin Hyperloop One, which saw one of its board members arrested on fraud and embezzlement charges in Russia last week and three other high-profile directors departing the board, according to Bloomberg. But that hasn’t stopped the futuristic-transport startup from showing off its latest pod prototype, first for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and now for the rest of us via the video above.

This $10,000 3D-Printed Electric Car Will Be on the Market in 1 Year

Why Is Kitty Hawk’s Flying Taxi Taking Off in New Zealand Instead of California?

Amazon looks at dropping packages from as high as 25 feet

Open Location Code: Easier location encoding

Open Location Codes are a way of encoding location into a form that is easier to use than latitude and longitude. They are designed to be used like street addresses, especially in places where buildings aren’t numbered or streets aren’t named.

Electric, self-flying, vertical takeoff taxis are coming to New Zealand

Larry Page’s autonomous air taxi ‘Cora’ flies in New Zealand

Is it time to take the Hyperloop seriously?

Imagine traveling the length of the United Kingdom—from London to Edinburgh, 400-plus miles—in under an hour. A journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco would take less than 30 minutes (five hours less than the average drive between the two cities). Your journey would be safe and comfortable, your carbon footprint almost non-existent.