Driving into tomorrow: The unstoppable surge of driverless revolution
Accelerating autonomy: navigating the unstoppable wave of driverless revolution reshaping transportation and technology landscapes globally.
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City of CT addresses drought and climate change with first CBI accredited green bond
In the face of global climate change and the worst drought in living memory, the City of Cape Town issued South Africa’s first true green bond last month.
Kenya bets on rail transforming East Africa, makes biggest ever investment
Africa might be a century behind the Western curve, but visionary leaders are starting to make the same bets which transformed the world’s dominant economies.
Bloomberg View: Renewable energy creating a much better world. In pictures.
Cheap renewable energy is a true revolution. It is as important as the tech revolution or the Green Revolution in agriculture.
Bloomberg View: Who’ll win Driverless Cars race – Tesla, Google, Apple?
Getting to “level-four” automation – where the car drives itself, all the time, with no human input – is still a formidable challenge. But who will win driverless car race?
Bloomberg View: Drop the propaganda – here’s why Uber is good for the poor
And sure, what’s good for Uber is bad for taxi drivers – or bad for owners of taxi medallions. The assumption that the beneficiaries are rich is strange.
GE: Rail rehabilitation & infrastructure investment key to Africa growth
General Electric is looking to lock in volumes of around $4 billion with Transnet over the next five years and use this as a platform for growth of rail into the rest of the region. Alec Hogg spoke with GE’s Head of Transport in Africa Thomas Konditi on the sidelines of WEF Africa currently on the go in Cape Town, South Africa.
Google exec sees self-driving cars as holding the key to future highways
Self-driving vehicles hold the key to reducing traffic fatalities and will transform the automobile industry, a top Google executive predicted.
China bans “private” taxis – pre-emptive blocking of Uber
By Bonnie Cao and Huang Zhe (Bloomberg) — China’s Ministry of Transport banned private cars from offering unlicensed taxi services via mobile-phone apps, even as it endorsed the software as having a “positive role” for licensed vehicles and chauffeurs. Car-hailing apps should differentiate their services from public transportation and taxis, according to a Jan. 8 … Read more
Craig Martin: OneLogix a hot stock amid the market mayhem
The primary business (91% of revenue) of OneLogix is actually specialised transport and logistics. So they operate in that area that is likely to enjoy the benefits of lower fuel costs.