Fantastical Plans Are on Hold, and More Car News This Week
The Covid-19 pandemic will delay the arrival of flying cars, and Google sibling Sidewalk Labs abandons plans to remake part of Toronto's waterfront.
Covid-19 Casts a Dark Cloud Over the Flying Car Future
The electric air taxi business—spurred along for years by Uber’s Elevate initiative and also known as flying cars—is flying into a cloudy unknown: The...
Covid-19 Casts a Dark Cloud Over the Flying Car Future
An economic slump is no good for a long shot business that's just starting to take off.
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project
When Google sibling Sidewalk Labs announced in 2017 a $50 million investment into a project to redevelop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront, it seemed...
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project
The Google sibling envisioned a tech-enabled and eco-friendly neighborhood. But residents rebelled over plans to collect and use their data, among other things.
As Cities Reopen, Outdoor Dining May Provide a Lifeline
The virus can be spread from droplets that an infected person coughs or sneezes, but researchers still aren’t sure how infectious those droplets are....
As Cities Reopen, Outdoor Dining May Provide a Lifeline
Restaurants are anxious to expand beyond takeout, and some researchers believe open-air transmission of the coronavirus is rare.
Sleeker Lidar Moves Volvo Closer to Selling a Self-Driving Car
If any automaker has made its name synonymous with safety, it’s Volvo. The Swedish outfit’s marketing department deserves some credit there, for sure, but...
Sleeker Lidar Gets Volvo Closer to Selling a Self-Driving Car
Using technology from Silicon Valley's Luminar, the Swedish automaker plans to offer completely autonomous highway driving by 2022.
California Sues Uber and Lyft to Classify Drivers as Employees
The State of California and three of its biggest cities sued Uber and Lyft Tuesday for misclassifying hundreds of thousands of drivers as independent...
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