Ride-hailing apps offer new way to get around town
Fed up with traditional taxis, more city dwellers are tapping their smartphones to hitch rides across town using mobile apps that allow connect riders and drivers.
Fed up with traditional taxis, more city dwellers are tapping their smartphones to hitch rides across town using mobile apps that allow connect riders and drivers.
Software
Feb 3, 2013
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(AP)—Raising your arm and yelling "taxi!" is the old-fashioned way to nab a New York City cab. Soon, all you'll need is a smartphone app.
Software
Dec 13, 2012
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(AP)—Chinese automaker BYD Co. is sending 50 electric cabs to London in a boost to China's struggling makers of all-electric vehicles.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2012
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(AP)—Nissan President Carlos Ghosn met Wednesday with Hong Kong's leader to pitch a proposal for the Japanese car maker to supply electric taxis to the southern Chinese city.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2012
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In New York, you still must hail a taxi the old-fashioned way, by raising your arm, no smartphone apps allowed.
Software
Sep 7, 2012
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(AP) NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Aug 3, 2012
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(AP) -- City authorities are often better placed than national governments to combat climate change, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday, vowing to promote the use of electric taxis as he takes over the leadership ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 6, 2010
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"Searching ride Madrid-Amsterdam or Belgium or Germany": people stranded due to a giant flight-halting cloud of volcanic ash this week were not too picky, and just glad that a new website was helping organise the long journey ...
Internet
Apr 23, 2010
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Tokyo taxis will be the first in the world to test new electric-car batteries that can be replaced in less time than it takes to fill up the petrol tank, the firm behind the system said Wednesday.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 26, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has developed technologies that pave the way for highly efficient unmanned public transport systems in our cities.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 19, 2009
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