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30th edition of the 11th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter
Tampa adds fleet of Tesla SUVs for new mobility option around city
Andrew Harlan, July 31, “The Tampa Downtown Partnership announced the launch of DASH, a new service featuring Tesla SUVs that will carry folks to 20 different spots around Tampa. The trip will cost just a few dollars, and an official route map will be revealed later in August.
DASH is described as an innovative new option to travel around fast-growing Downtown Tampa. This service will zip passengers through the city with low-cost shared rides between more than 20 different hubs located across Downtown….” Read more Hmmmm… Fantastic!! Tampa becomes the first MOVES-style mobility system in the world to “…zip passengers through the city with low-cost shared rides between more than 20 different hubs located across Downtown…” providing “Safe, Affordable, Equitable, Sustainable, High-quality” rides. Hopefully, Trenton can become the 2nd where We’ve called the Hubs “Kiosks” (or “Hubs” or ??) with a vision to evolve to driverless operation so that the cost to operate the service becomes truly Affordable. 😊 Alain
SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 329 / PodCast 329 w/FL Senator Jeff Brandes & DASH’s Shuan Drinkard
F. Fishkin, Aug. 7, “Tampa Downtown Partnership head Shaun Drinkard and Florida Policy Project Founder Jeff Brandes join Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for a look at the new Tampa DASH service that will provide affordable mobility with a Tesla fleet of vehicles. Plus a preview of the Florida AV Summit, the latest headlines on Cruise, Waymo, Tesla, Luminar, NuView and more. Smart Driving Cars 329!
- 0:00 open
- 0:25 Tampa to use Tesla Model Ys for new mobility service. Shaun Drinkard Tampa Downtown Partnership.
- 15:06 former Florida State Senator Jeff Brandes on the Tampa DASH project
- 18:41 Cathie Wood speaking at up Florida Automated Vehicles Summit
- 30:00 WSJ headline: America’s Most Tech Forward City Has Doubts About Self Driving Cars
- 32:47 Slate headline: As Cruise Expands to Los Angeles, Self Driving’s Breakout Moment Has Arrived
- 33:29 Brandes on what AV activities are going on now in Florida
- 36:40 Cruise reaches union agreement with electrical and janitorial workers in San Francisco
- 37:25 Luminar AI push
- 40:02 NuView plans space based LiDAR to map earth in 3D
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40:35 On the Tesla Front.. Highland production, Pepsi Tesla Semis and Texas Tesla customers are being offered unlimited overnight charging for 25 dollars a month
- 0:00 open
- 0:50 Overview of Holman
- 1:50 Fleet business expanding in robots, etc.
- 3:00 role of autonomy and investment in autonomous trucking firm, Gatik
- 5:44 future of cars, driving, dealerships
- 9:00 Types of start-ups that are of interest
- 10:20 Decision to go outside company to find worthwhile technology
- 11:30 upcoming book from Alain and Michael Sena focused on new mobility
- 14:00 Continuing reinvention necessary
- 15:30 Scott Wingo, CEO of Spiffy, app-based mobile auto repair and washing
- 17:00 What is Spiffy doing that competitors aren’t
- 19:50 Growth of service area and franchising
SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 328 / PodCast 328 w/ Wm. Cariss, Holman Growth Ventures +
Fishkin, Aug. 3, “On episode 328 of Smart Driving Cars, we’re at the Holman Emerge conference in NJ focused on start-ups and the future of driving, dealerships and mobility. Guests include Holman CEO Carl Ortell, President Chris Conroy, Homan Growth Ventures CEO Bill Cariss and Spiffy founder Scott Wingo.
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