Was about to head down into the subway when I noticed one of the all electric @NYCTBus. Driver said he loves it. There’s a bit of a delay in acceleration but once it goes it’s very zippy. Extremely quiet, too.
NYC Electric Bus
Category: Technology
SpaceX will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the Moon
This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer, will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa plans to fly on the trip as early as 2023, and he wants to take artists with him to turn the entire ride into an art project called #dearMoon. A website for the mission went live after the announcement. “Finally, I can tell you that I choose…
Larry Page’s flying taxis approach regulatory approval in New Zealand
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is set to announce a new agreement with a company financed by Google co-Founder Larry Page to test autonomous air taxis for official certification in the country, reports The New York Times. Kitty Hawk, the company building the autonomous planes, has aspirations the partnership will lead to a commercial network of taxis in the country in the next three years. Kitty Hawk is already reportedly working on an Uber-like app that will allow customers to hail one of its air taxis. In an email to the NYT,…