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Commuting on Electric, Foiling, Water E-Scooters to Avoid the Traffic – Love it or Hate it?

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Luigi Cappel

If Auckland Transport, Auckland Council and ACC have had nightmares about Lime and other brands of e-scooter, they should be very worried about the implications of this new disruptive transport mode, the electric water scooter being developed by Kiwi engineer … Continue reading →

Posted in Auckland, disruptive model, driving, Foresight, Future Technology, Futurist, New Zealand, Road Tolling, safer journeys, Smart City, traffic, traffic congestion, Traffic jam, Traffic Optimization, travel demand management | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Why I think an Autonomous Vehicle Won’t Be Able to Reliably Guess Where a Pedestrian Will Go

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Luigi Cappel

In 2016, Volvo ‘promised’ that we would have ‘Deathproof Cars’ by 2020. That’s next year! You may also recall that about this time last year, an Autonomous Uber Volvo crashed and killed a pedestrian. According to the NTSB the car … Continue reading →

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