sharing economy
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The Government’s Smart Cities Plan For Australia: Uber, Driverless Cars, And Clean Energy
The Turnbull government’s newly announced Smart Cities Plan name-checks the “sharing economy” and hints at a vision of the future where Australia’s major cities are dragging kicking and screaming into the 21st century with ride-sharing services like Uber and GoGet, the proliferation of autonomous vehicles and buildings that use energy more efficiently.
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The ‘Airbnb Of Parking’ Offers Affordable Daily Parking In Aussie CBDs
Divvy Parking is the perfect lovechild of sharing economy giants Uber and Airbnb — letting you book a space for your car in secure parking that until now has gone underutilised. With public parking rates in Australian CBDs as high as $90 for a single day, Divvy’s added ability to book parking on a daily…
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Airbnb’s New Compact Pledges To Play Nicer With Cities But Doesn’t Go Far Enough
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for Airbnb. The startup spent $US8 million to defeat Proposition F in San Francisco, which would have imposed stricter regulations for the company. Days later, a horrifying story about a 2013 death in an Airbnb rental raised concerns that the defeated regulations were badly needed and overdue.
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Could The Sharing Economy Bring Back Hitchhiking?
On August 1, hitchBOT, a robot that had successfully hitchhiked more than 10,000 km (6,213 miles) across Canada and northern Europe, was destroyed by unknown vandals in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood.