taxis
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Baidu’s New Taxi Has a Removable Steering Wheel
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but self-driving cars always seem to be about a year away. The tech is perpetually promised but, so far, hasn’t quite lived up to the expectations of consumers. Well now, there’s a new “robotaxi” from Chinese company Baidu that might really be a year away from reality.
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Travis Kalanick Flees Sinking Ship
Christmas Eve news dump: Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, the man behind the ride-hailing company’s meteoric global rise despite its highly speculative business model that’s never turned a profit, is leaving its board of directors, Uber said in a statement on Tuesday. He’s also dumped all of his remaining stock in the company.
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Surprising No One, Uber Continues To Hemorrhage Cash
Beleaguered ride-sharing giant Uber continued to torch cash like an outdated Joker reference in Q3 2019, but it claims that the news is positive because parts of its business would technically be profitable if one looked past all the ways it’s losing money.
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Did French Taxis Actually Change The Fate Of World War I?
Screenshot: British Pathé (YouTube) Under the thick cover of the night on September 6, 1914, a group of Renault AG1 Landalets gathered in near the military complex of the Place des Invalides in Paris. The drivers were agitated, anxious, afraid for their lives and worried about what would happen to them when they reached their…