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- Bird announces its third-generation electric scooter with automatic emergency braking
- Lime Prime is the scooter company’s new monthly subscription service
- Uber finally recognizes UK driver union in historic agreement
- The Boring Company tests its ‘Teslas in Tunnels’ system in Las Vegas
| Bird announces its third-generation electric scooter with automatic emergency braking Posted: 27 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT  Bird is out with a new electric scooter that's designed to be the Santa Monica, California-based company's most durable and sustainable vehicle yet. The Bird Three scooter has a longer wheelbase, a dual-sensor throttle, and a "triple braking system" with dual independent handbrakes and an "autonomous emergency braking" system that the company claims is an industry-first. But specifications aside, the really interesting thing about the Bird Three is the company's insistence on calling it a "micro-EV." It's a clear effort by Bird, which recently announced its intent to go public via a "reverse merger" with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, to capitalize on the current momentum around electric vehicles.  |
| Lime Prime is the scooter company’s new monthly subscription service Posted: 27 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT  Lime is rolling out a new monthly subscription service for its electric scooters that's called — no joke — Lime Prime. Lime typically charges a fixed rate to unlock a vehicle and then a per-minute fee to ride. For $5.99 a month, the company will waive that initial fee for Lime Prime subscribers. And in markets with no unlock fees, riders will receive 25 percent off the price of their ride. Subscribers will still pay the per-minute charge, but Lime says that someone who uses one of its scooters every day would save approximately $25 a month under the subscription plan. There are other perks that come with a subscription. Lime Prime members can reserve any scooter or bike for...  |
| Uber finally recognizes UK driver union in historic agreement Posted: 26 May 2021 03:01 PM PDT  Uber has finally recognized a union of its own drivers. Allow yourself that single moment of elation before we get to the rest of the details. GMB trade union in the UK (it's not really an acronym for anything, as it was shortened from General, Municipal, Boilermakers' and Allied Trade Union some 40 years ago) managed to clinch union recognition from the jaws of the famously labor-hostile app company today. As The Guardian reported, "GMB will have access to drivers' meeting hubs [...] It will also be able to represent drivers if they lose access to the Uber app, and it will meet quarterly with management to discuss driver issues and concerns." It's not clear whether this arrangement hews closer to traditional union representation as we...  |
| The Boring Company tests its ‘Teslas in Tunnels’ system in Las Vegas Posted: 26 May 2021 01:44 PM PDT  Elon Musk's Boring Company started shuttling passengers through the twin tunnels it built underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) this week, as part of a test to get the system ready for its full debut in June. Videos, images, and accounts shared around the internet by the people who showed up for the test offer the most coherent glimpse yet at Musk's solution for traversing the LVCC campus. It is quite literally just Teslas being driven through two 0.8-mile tunnels — a far cry from the autonomous sled-and-shuttle ideas that Musk once proposed for The Boring Company. There are three stops to the "LVCC Loop" system. The stations at either end are above ground, while the one in the middle is at the same 30-foot depth as the...  |
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