MyTaxi acquires 100% of Clever Taxi, the leading taxi app in Romania. Romania becomes the 11th European country in which MyTaxi operates. mytaxi grows to 120,000 registered drivers and over 7 mil customers following acquisition. LINK
VIDEO: The Grocery Store Of The Future Is Mobile, Self-Driving, And Run By AI. In Shanghai, a prototype of a new 24-hour convenience store has no staff, no registers, and the whole thing is on wheels, designed to eventually drive itself to a warehouse to restock, or to a customer to make a delivery. LINK
Electric bus CEO claims boosts sales after Trump Election. As technology gets cheaper, it’s getting easier for cities to take a real stand on climate. LINK
VIDEO: University of Michigan launches its own self-driving shuttle service. The shuttle will take 15 passengers at a time. Mcity, the university’s 32-acre simulated city project, will be in charge of the shuttle service. LINK
VIDEO (after a whole bunch of handshaking): Driverless mini police cars to patrol Dubai. Vehicles will use biometrics to scan crowds and identify criminals, or suspects. LINK
Taxi Operator Working on Self-Driving Cars for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Companies are working to bring autonomous cabs to Tokyo’s streets in time for the Olympics. The companies hope this will help address a labor shortage in Japan’s taxi industry attributed to an aging population. LINK
Porsche changes its mind on electric vehicles, plans 50% of its production to be electric within 6 years. In a surprising move, The CEO now says that Porsche is preparing for a capacity of 60,000 cars per year at its Zuffenhausen plant. LINK
Vanity Fair Essay: The Chilling Reason Behind Travis Kalanick’s Abrupt Resignation from Uber: Money, not morality. LINK
New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World’s Worst Traffic and Only 10 percent of cars would have to be connected for it to work. LINK
