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Uber Adds TomTom Navigation Data To Its Driver App, Not Replacing Google Maps
On-demand transportation service Uber lost out on its joint bid for Nokia’s Here mapping unit, so it’s moving ahead with putting together its own navigation, mapping and location services. Today, Dutch mapping company TomTom announced a deal to provide data to Uber for use in its navigation for Uber drivers (and specifically not Uber passengers). Specifically, Uber will… Read More
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Google Maps Gets Offline Navigation And Search
It’s 8am and you’re in your garage. You have to head into a different direction today, but you can’t fire up Google Maps until you’ve left the garage, because you’re offline. You probably pull off to the side of the road until your phone gets connectivity. Not anymore. Starting today, Google Maps will make itself available offline (search and navigation) for… Read More
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Remember When Google Tried To Start Uber In May 2005?
The internet is a wonderful thing. It’s a place for new and fresh ideas, forums for people to discuss them. And well, ways to find ones that had been dropped. One idea that was dropped was Google’s attempt to start what sounds a whole lot like Lyft and Uber. The project was called “Google Ride Finder” and it was announced on May 31st, 2005. It got a little bit of… Read More
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Tesla Will Unveil Its Most Affordable Car To Date In March 2016
Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the company intended to show off the Model 3 — its most affordable car to date by far, at $35,000 — in March of 2016. But as we’ve learned from the company’s adventures with the Model X, Tesla stuff can most definitely get delayed.
With that said: good news, Model 3 hopefuls! The Model 3 is still on track for an… Read More
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TIEMAC Is a SaaS Platform For The Trucking Industry
For an industry generating $650 billion a year in revenue, its surprising how little innovation there is in the trucking business. Launched at last year’s TC Atlanta Meetup, TIEMAC is trying to buck this trend with its end-to-end cloud-based solution for trucking companies. The platform offers real-time tracking technology that allows a trucking company to track and monitor… Read More
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Uber Tempts Commuters To Drop The Keys With Pre-Priced Out-Of-Town Carpools
Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL option aimed at commuters. It offers pre-priced shared trips into bustling San Francisco from the outlying cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Jose from 6am to 10am. For example, the Palo Alto to SF ride this morning was set at $20.… Read More
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Google Self-Driving Car Update From October: No Crashes, Halloween Helpful
Today, Google shared their self-driving car project monthly report. Good news, there were no accidents. There were however, some interesting learnings that the team shared about how they’re training their software. Apparently, Halloween was a big help: Halloween’s a great time to get some extra learning done. This week, lots of little ghouls, superheroes and even robots were… Read More
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Virgin America And Spotify Team Up For Free Inflight Music Streaming
Today, Virgin America announced a partnership with Spotify to give its customers free music streaming as part of its ViaStat program, which also includes Netflix streaming. ViaStat has gone on record saying it can deliver “12 megabits per second download speeds to each seat,” which is faster than anything I’ve ever experienced on a flight. Plus, video streaming is usually… Read More
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Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation
In late August, a report out of Consumer Reports said that the Tesla Model S P85D, an all-wheel-drive electric sedan that also happens to be the most expensive model of the car, performed “better in our tests than any other car ever has, earning a perfect road-test score.”
We said at the time that the review was something you don’t see every day. But more shockingly… Read More
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Photos And Details Of Uber’s Map-Making Car
Uber has a car with a bunch of cameras on it driving around collecting images to improve its maps, driving routes, and ETAs, TechCrunch has confirmed. And here are the first photos of it. When asked about an image dug up from a private Uber driver Facebook group by TechCrunch reader Dave Craige (seen below), Uber admitted that this is a mapping vehicle piloted by a human driver, like a… Read More
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