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France’s Singular Unicorn BlaBlaCar’s Secret To Scaling Fast Globally
BlaBlaCar pulled in $200 million and spread its ride-sharing platform to 20 countries this year. It now claims 25 million members worldwide. Co-founder and COO Nicolas Brusson told the TechCrunch Disrupt London audience in an onstage interview today at least 50 percent of that growth is from emerging markets like as Russia and India. Read More
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Find Which Uber Is Yours With Its New Colored-Coded SPOT Lights
Outside big events like concerts, tons of Ubers can be waiting, making it tough for passengers to figure out which car is theirs. That’s why last week I suggested Uber create a feature that would give passengers and drivers a visual signal they could use to find each other. Well, today Uber launched that. It’s called SPOT and involves drivers installing a colored LED light on… Read More
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Google Snags Former Tesla Autopilot Engineering Manager Robert Rose
The battle to make elite autonomous vehicles is on, and a major part of that is assembling teams that will carry out your plans.
Today, it was reported that Google snagged Tesla’s former Autopilot software engineering manager, Robert Rose. Rose also spent five years at SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn profile. Read More
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Google Granted Patent That Enables Self-Driving Cars To Interact With Pedestrians
A lot of people are excited to hop into a car one day and read emails and tweets as the car drives itself, and you, to work. It would cut down on the anxiety we all feel during our daily commutes, as well as keep the roads safer. Google’s self-driving project is leading the pack, and a recently granted patent (Patent #: US009196164, granted 11/24/15) signals that the company is trying… Read More
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Uber Chases The Perfect Ride With Back-To-Back Trips
There’s a secret equation Uber is constantly trying to optimize, where Uber and the driver earn the most money possible while the passenger pays the least. Internally, I’ve heard Uber refers to this as “the perfect ride”. It might seem like the two halves of the equation fundamentally clash, and in a way they do, but the trick is in maximizing efficiency of every part… Read More
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Jeff Bezos’ Space Program Successfully Lands A Rocket
Jeff Bezos took to Twitter for the first time to announce a milestone from his space company Blue Origin, and the Internet soaked it in. I’ll Take The Google Self-Driving Car With Florence Swanson’s Artwork On It
Google’s fun little project called “Paint The Town” for their self-driving cars is a great way to connect with communities. It takes trust to allow vehicles that drive themselves for the most part, and Austin seems to be trusting Google quite a bit. I just want to say this, if I were to ride around in Google’s self-driving car, I want mine designed by Austin… Read More
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10 Carpooling Apps To Take This Weekend In San Francisco That Aren’t Uber
Let’s all agree that public transportation in San Francisco is not the greatest, but there’s plenty more ways to get about town and not all of them include clicking on UberPOOL. Here we present a handful of startups in San Francisco hoping to make your commute easier than MUNI and cleaner and cheaper than Uber and Lyft. *H/T to 7×7 for first compiling a number of the… Read More
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Uber Considers Steering Drivers To “Vocational Training” As Cars Go Autonomous
What happens to Uber’s drivers once cars drive themselves? Something other than just losing their jobs, according to a gentler approach from CEO Travis Kalanick. Uber could potentially train drivers to do other jobs in the post-driving world.
Previously Kalanick had taken a more ruthlessly efficient stance, saying at CODE Conference last year that he loves self-driving cars, and that… Read More
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Let’s Have A Chat About Virtual Reality
“Virtual reality” according to Wikipedia:
Virtual reality (VR), which can be referred to as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated life, replicates an environment that simulates physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds and lets the user interact in that world. Virtual realities artificially creates sensory experiences, which can include sight, hearing… Read More
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