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Hyundai Motor eyes acquisition of Korean lidar-free self-driving startup 42dot

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stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4% million) in 42dot.

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Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko: ‘You can’t do too many things at the same time’

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Co-founded in 2019 by ex-Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko, the company began with a mission of being the operating system for micromobility vehicles , one that uses remote operators to reposition shared electric scooters to locations where prospective riders are or send them back to the warehouse for a charge.

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Einride founder on building an underlying business to support future tech goals

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Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Today, that means designing electric trucks and an underlying operating system to help overland shippers make the transition to electric. On top of that, he saw the need to eventually automate the role of long-haul trucking.

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Startups and investors are turning to micromobility subscriptions

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Across the United States, Europe, some of Canada and at least one Middle Eastern city, existing mobility companies are adding a subscription business line to their repertoire, and entirely new companies are being formed on the basis of the hardware-as-a-service model. People want low friction in transportation.

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Terminal Operating Systems: Main Features, Integration, and Providers Overview

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For example, in the US, the situation in the Port of Oakland is the worst with vessels taking an average of six days to unload and load (import containers are waiting for eleven days to get transported). connected inland transportation (arrangement of cargo movement). The terminal operating system and its key modules.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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With a mission to revolutionize the future of global mobility, WABTEC delivers transformative transportation systems that quite literally propel the world forward. As a major transportation player in the industry, we have signed up to reduce the carbon footprint generated by locomotives and passenger trains.

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Telematics Systems: How Streaming Data is Used in Transportation

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With the right telematics system in place, this data can become a deep pool of valuable business insights for companies engaged in transportation and logistics. In this article, we’ll dive deeper into the data aspects of telematics systems. At the basis of modern vehicle telematics , there are systems ?