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Mobike outfitted its bikes with QR codes and internet-connected smart locks around the bike’s back wheel.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Early delivery and ride-sharing apps hooked into Google Maps.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
West Palm Beach in Florida has a shared-space zone, and Washington, D.C., is one of fourteen American cities to have set a Scandinavian-style Vision Zero target of zero road deaths by 2024 (though progress has been uneven, prompting a Rally for Streets That Don’t Kill People by pedestrians and cyclists in the city in April 2019).
Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
An analysis by the study team found that average vehicle miles traveled per day were reduced by eleven miles for the group that lived near the LRT eighteen months after it opened, compared to those that lived further away. The entire difference between the two groups was a result of the increase in LRT use, suggesting that LA residents were willing
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But what of the road not taken? There was nothing inevitable about the way cars were adopted, first in America, and then by imitation in Europe and elsewhere. Are there other rules, and other ways of arranging urban spaces, that would have allowed cars to fit more smoothly into cities, rather than simply taking over the streets? Experiments in rece
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