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Today tow vehicles push the airplane away from the finger position onto the apron. The pilot power on the engines and the plane will start taxiing to the runway that in some airports can be a long one, like in Schiphol where it may take more than 20 minutes to …

CES 2022 is back to (quasi) normal and many companies are using this opportunity to present their latest innovation as well as to make promises on their commitment to release those innovations to the market. In the coming days I will comment on a few of these announcements. Today is …

On December 23rd, 2021, Abu Dhabi has become the first city with a commercial autonomous taxi service, TxAI, that is Taxi driven by AI. The trial started few months ago and now it is no longer a trial (offering free rides to suspicious but daring customers) but a regular service …

There are still quite a bit of discussions on the advantage of hydrogen power (when considered throughout the whole value chain, from hydrogen production to distribution and usage) as I pointed out in previous posts. For sure, the first practical use of hydrogen power on the road is going to …

The quest for autonomous driving seems ready to succeed, but we are not there yet and it is actually proving more and more elusive with several people working in the field claiming that a truly general autonomous driving vehicle will not become “normal” for several more years, probably well into …

50+ years ago when men first landed on the Moon, newspapers were full of forecasts of cities brimming with flying cars at the turn of the century. Traffic jams would have been a thing of the past since most people would be flying from home to office and to shopping …

There are already plenty of devices without a steering wheel! Think about the old Roomba, the autonomous vacuum cleaner introduced back in 2002 by iRobot. Well, it bumped on chairs and walls but that was not a big deal. Upon bumping it backtracked and changed its direction: no problem! Subsequent …

Just few days ago I had a conf call with Janet Garcia, Founder and CEO of Bleutech Park. (I inserted in “italics” sentences taken verbatim from Janet). This is a moonshot project aiming at developing a self-sustainable city by leveraging the most advanced technology that is at the same time …

12. Autonomous vehicles and flying cars There are already a number of autonomous vehicles, both self-driving cars and autonomous trucks. Additionally, there are several fully autonomous drones and a few airplanes flying in the sky. However, if we compare those numbers with the numbers of vehicles/planes we can see that …

I should confess I never suspected that somebody would count the number of potholes repaired over a period of time in a given Country. Apparently, over the last 10 years 18 million potholes were fixed in the UK at a cost of 1B pounds. According to the same statistics the …