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Rolls-Royce Reveal Flying Taxi Concept Design
Rolls-Royce Reveal Flying Taxi Concept Design Rolls-Royce is one of the biggest names in terms of prestige cars. What about flying cars though? If anyone was going to create one of these, you would not necessarily expect them to be at the top of the list. It seems, however, that…
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London Uber Ban Overturned As Short Term License Is Issued
Uber’s London Ban Overturned With Short Term License Issued Uber is, without doubt, one of the most successful start-up companies in recent years. That doesn’t necessarily mean to say, however, that it has all been smooth sailing. If anything, in recent years Uber has found itself in some turbulent waters.…
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Uber Test Option To Allow For Cheaper Rides If You Can Wait
Uber Test New Feature For Cheaper Rides It’s hard to deny the impact that Uber has had on the taxi industry in recent years. Allowing ‘civilians’ to opt into a taxi service and the popularity of the application has allowed people to access transport at generally significantly lower prices than…
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Uber Applies For AI Patent To Identify Drunks
Uber Applies For I Patent To Help It Identify Drunk Customers After a long (and probably ill-advised) night on the town, there does come the question of how to get home. With drink driving being the exclusive territory of morons, most of us rely upon taxi companies to do all the…
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Drunk Man Orders A $1600 300 Mile Uber Ride
Uber Drive Costs Drunk Man $1600 The Uber taxi service can be particularly helpful in getting you home, but they are perhaps not so cost-effective when your home is 300-miles away. A drunk man from the US, however, found himself subject to a $1600 Uber ride after he ordered the…
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The Iconic London Black Cab is Going Green this Month
Plans to improve the environment and air quality in London! In London, there are many iconic sights. Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace etc. One of them, however, is also the humble black cab. Yes, the London black cab has been with us for quite some time. For…
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NASA Engineer Hired to Direct Uber Elevate VTOL Project
We reported four months ago of Uber’s plans to develop Uber Elevate, a fleet of Vertical Take-Off and Landing or VTOL taxis sometime in the future, but it looks like that future is going to arrive earlier than expected. Uber has just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore as Director of…
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Uber Developing Automated VTOL Flying Taxis
Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company is now looking even further into the future, according to Jeff Holden, Head of Products at Uber. In an interview with Recode, Holden revealed that Uber is looking into creating…
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Copyright Troll Receives Jail Time Following Attack on Uber Driver
Robert Croucher is mostly known for being the owner of the copyright troll company Hatton & Berkeley which launched a large offensive against alleged illegal file downloaders in the UK last fall, but now he’ll also be known as a jailbird after assaulting an Uber driver during a night out in…
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NuTonomy Launches World’s First Self-Driving Taxi
When it comes to self-driving cars, everyone wants to build one. From Tesla with their autopilot function to Volvo making a deal with Uber to make a self-driving taxi fleet. The ability to step into your car and then step out after telling it simply where you want to go…
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Uber Teams Up With Volvo to Give Driver Free Rides
Driverless cars are all the hit. The ability to get into your car and tell it that you want to go to work, only to then find it drive away without you ever pressing a pedal. Now it looks like the Volvo is going to help the ride-sharing app Uber achieve…
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Self-Driving Lyft May Hit The Streets Soon!
When it comes to cars, if you aren’t working on electric vehicles like the Tesla Model 3 your eyes are often turned towards the likes of autonomous cars. The ability to get into a car, tell it a destination and then enjoy your ride as the car deals with the…
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Uber & Lyft Drivers Will Need Business Permits in San Francisco
When it comes to “ridesharing” apps like Uber and Lyft, the law has been slow to catch up on the latest app-driven taxi scheme. Debating if they are consultants or employees, cities have been torn apart as Taxi drivers argue that they use loopholes to avoid extra charges that Taxis…
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Jakarta Taxi Drivers Are Protesting Against Uber
Recent years have seen the rise of apps that sometimes disturb common practices, things that have been going on for many years already. One of the things disturbed has been Taxi’s with many apps offering similar services, often for cheaper fares. Taxi Drivers in Jakarta have had enough and are…
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Uber Family Lets You Pay for Friends and Families Uber Rides
Remember the days before people had contract phones, when you ran out of credit and had no way to contact your family because you had no money on you? The answer was to do a reverse call and get your family to foot the phone bill as you explained that…
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