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Added on the 09/05/2016 14:26:57 - Copyright : Euronews EN
After an Uber driver killed six people in a shooting rampage in Michigan, attention has turned to how the ride-sharing app screens potential drivers.
Footage released May 13 by a taxi passenger shows the highly unusual dashboard of an unnamed Moscow taxi driver, who navigates the Russian capital using 13 different monitors. The tech-savvy driver uses ten tablets for taxi calls and orders, one TV on the dashboard, one navigator, one DVR, and somehow finds time to watch the road.
Protests against the ride-hailing app Uber turned violent in Mexico City. Julie Noce reports.
Protests against the ride-hailing app Uber turned violent in Mexico City. Julie Noce reports.
From the desert to the metropolises: Audi not only uses the future-oriented drive technology of the RS Q e-tron at the Dakar Rally but also specifically demonstrates it in major cities. Following the highly acclaimed Hamburg tour a year ago, the program now included the capitals of the three countries from which the Audi factory drivers hail. Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz traversed Madrid, Stéphane Peterhansel/Edouard Boulanger were on the road in Paris and Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist steered the innovative low-emission prototype through Stockholm. Many passers-by followed the emotional performances full of joy and curiosity.Madrid, Paris, Stockholm: The three Audi driver teams passed the most beautiful landmarks in the respective capitals with the electrically driven prototype. The royal palaces in Spain and Sweden or the Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Cœur in Paris were just some of the numerous stops on the three routes. At selected locations, the RS Q e-tron also gave a spectacular demonstration of the power of its 263 kW (358 hp) electric drive during drifts. Again and again, many passers-by turned to look at the eye-catching car, marveled, took photos and asked for autographs, which the pro drivers and co-drivers were only too happy to give.
Barcelona, Mar 18 (EFE) .- Barcelona taxi drivers protested in Barcelona against the return of Uber to the streets of Barcelona. Two years later the American multinational has returned to Barcelona to offer its services.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN BARCELONA.