Technology was supposed to make ground transportation safer....no one predicted hackers would figure out how to scam Uber, Lyft, and Instacart. Image: Instagram
Young women accepted a ride from a strange man in an unmarked car because they had the idea it was an OK thing to do…their guard wasn’t up; they had no guard. There was a time when elected officials and
Read MoreWaymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, TechCrunch reports in a December 5th article. “The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to
Read MoreCanada’s Air Transat will gradually suspend flights between December 8 and 9 following a 72-hour strike notice from ALPA, the union representing the company’s 700 pilots. Air Transat posted the following notice on December 7th: “The union representing our pilots
Read MoreAODA compliance, passenger safety, driver earnings industry issues The province of Ontario’s review of the ground transportation framework announced in the Fall Economic Statement “will branch out in the new year,” Ministry of Transportation staff indicate. “We are currently consulting
Read MoreTo the Editor, RE: It’s always sunny in autonomous news When, not if, Waymo commences operations in T.O., the VFH will be utterly transformed. (Look for a possible merger or takeover with Uber at some point. Uber, with a 2024
Read MoreThe deal recommits all parties to net-zero by 2050 By Dan McTeague As I said in the lead-up to the announcement of this recent Carney-Smith pipeline deal, “the devil is in the details.” And now that I’ve had some time
Read More“Uniform or near-uniform pricing” These agreements constitute a per se violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. They are horizontal arrangements among direct competitors to fix prices—precisely the type of conduct the antitrust laws were designed to prohibit. The
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Doug Ford's team took a Ronald Reagan talk and carefully removed all the words that indicated he was, in fact, going to use tariffs against Japan. Photo: CPAC
Compare the full Reagan transcript to the Ford ad for yourself One of the most important sessions in the Dale Carnegie program is the one in which the class learns to remove the words “but” and “however” from their vocabularies.
Read MoreEliminates “Swiss cheese of a Taxi license by-law” The town council of Midland, Ontario, has voted to get out of the business of regulating Taxis. A motion made by Mayor Bill Gordon after midnight at the end of a lengthy
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In addition to viewing the RoboTaxi at Tesla's WeRobot event, media could drink free alcohol at bars staffed by robot bartenders. Image: YouTube
The PR professionals hawking autonomous put P.T. Barnum to shame “For God’s sake, this is Toronto, not Texas.” –Bernice, 80-year-old widow of a Taxi driver Matt Elliott’s December 2nd coverage of the fact that “Waymo is eyeing Toronto” brings to
Read MoreMeanwhile, Magna’s self-driving test cut short for “bad behaviour” by robots “Alphabet’s much-hyped self-driving car company is looking at Toronto. Waymo, the autonomous taxi service where passengers roll solo, opened a registration with Toronto’s lobbyist registrar on November 6,” City
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