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Lyft reveals surprising results from its ’Ditch Your Car Challenge’

sudshr47 December 13, 2018

For 30 days in October and November, 2,000 people across 35 North American cities vowed to get around without driving their own vehicle — with a little help from ride-hailing app Lyft.

The Ditch Your Car Challenge offered personal driving alternatives, paid for by Lyft. More than 130,000 offered to participate in the challenge. In the end, only 1.5 percent of those were chosen to receive these credits for a month of commuting:

$300 Lyft Shared ride credit or Lyft all-access plan (if Shared rides weren’t available in your city)
$45 bike-share credit
$100 Zipcar car-sharing credit
$105 public transit monthly pass Read more…

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SoftBank invests in parking startup ParkJockey pushing valuation to $1 billion

sudshr47 December 10, 2018 Startups

SoftBank continues to invest in the future of transportation — this time in ParkJockey, a startup that has built a technology platform aimed at monetizing parking lots. And ParkJockey, which was founded in 2013, is already using that capital to scale up. Along with the SoftBank investment news, ParkJockey also announced that it was acquiring two […]

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Future cars could park themselves, even in the toughest spots

sudshr47 November 26, 2018

Forget self-driving cars. The future is all about self-parking cars.
For anyone still traumatized from learning how to parallel park, a new patent from Bay Area-based electric vehicle company SF Motors will soothe your bumper-filled nightmares.
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Thanksgiving travel nightmare projected to hit these U.S. cities the worst

sudshr47 November 21, 2018

The latest data from Inrix paints a dismal picture for folks traveling Wednesday (that’s today!) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Drivers in Boston, New York City and San Francisco will see the largest delays with drive times nearly quadruple the norm, according to AAA and Inrix, which aggregates and analyzes traffic data collected from vehicles and highway […]

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Amazon’s Alexa Fund invests in on-demand parking service, ParkWhiz

sudshr47 November 13, 2018

ParkWhiz, a startup that’s something of an Open Table for available parking spots, is adding $5 million in new equity to its recently announced Series D round. The new funds come from strategic investors Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Alate Partners, Chaifetz Group and Purple Arch Ventures. Combined with the earlier round led by NewSpring Capital, the total raise […]

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How issues of microtransit, congestion and parking are closing in on cities

sudshr47 November 11, 2018

Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter I’ve been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walker’s article in The Atlantic arguing against the view that ridesharing and microtransit will be the future of mass transit. Instead, his thesis is that a properly operated and well-resourced bus system is much more […]

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Bird will let you complain about bad e-scooter parking

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

Irresponsible scooter parking is the scourge of any city overrun with the motorized devices. So on Thursday, e-scooter company Bird unleashed “Community Mode” on its app, which includes a way to report or complain about bad parking jobs or damaged Bi…

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Will self-driving cars kill parking?

sudshr47 August 2, 2018

Some people have postulated that autonomous ridesharing cars will never need to park and cities of the future will not need street parking, parking lots or parking garages. But parking is far from dead. In fact, the $100 billion market may be poised to grow.

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BMW acquires Parkmobile parking app to help tackle city traffic

sudshr47 January 16, 2018

BMW has acquired Parkmobile, an app that provides guidance and services for those looking for parking in North America, including on-street and garage parking payments and spot reservation. BMW Group had already held a minority investment in the …

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Ford and Autonomic are building a smart city cloud platform

sudshr47 January 9, 2018

Ford and Silicon Valley-based Autonomic will work together to build a new open platform upon which cities can build out infrastructure communications, including connected traffic lights and parking spots, called the “Transportation Mobility Cloud.” Ford CEO Jim Hackett announced the news on Monday at the CES 2018 keynote kicking off the annual conference. The platform is designed… Read More

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This may be the most spectacular car parking fail of all time

sudshr47 November 21, 2017

Plenty of people have difficulty parking.

It can be tricky, especially if it’s dark out and you have to go squeeze in between two other vehicles.

Sometimes you might need a few attempts, or — if things go really wrong — it could result in a bump.

Ending up on top of another vehicle is less common, though.

This picture was taken in Cornwall, UK, on Saturday night. It apparently captures the moment after a student somehow reversed onto the car behind her while attempting to park.

“She pressed what she thought was the brake but turned out to be the accelerator,” Mark Hemsworth, the neighbour who took the photos, told The Sun. Read more…

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