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Added on the 04/08/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Premium car brand Audi is to invest $79.5 billion dollars over the next five years in self-driving electric cars.
Ride-sharing app Uber is making waves this summer after launching UberBoat, making island hopping in Croatia all the more easier. The new on-demand service was officially inaugurated in Split on Friday. Uber users will be able to request a speedboat in Split, Hvar and Dubrovnik starting Friday, allowing tourists and locals to hop from island to island at the tap of a button. An 8-passenger boat from Split to Hvaron will set users back 350 euro, or about $400, while a larger vessal that can carry up to 12 passengers costs 445 euro, or about $505.
If you've been keeping track of new technology, you have probably heard of self-driving cars. Well, driverless cars took a major leap forward last weekend in Germany. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt and chairman of Deutsche Bahn Ruediger Grube were among the passengers of the first self-driving bus journey in Germany, a development that may radically change transportation, not only in Europe, but all over the world. The bus, dubbed “Olli”, made several rounds around the Euref-Campus premises in Berlin, and is due to undergo further testing in DB’s Bavaria-based Bad Birnbach test track before it will can be approved to hit the open roads.
A driverless Uber truck loaded with 50,000 cans of Budweiser beer made a 120-mile journey across Colorado last week in the first commercial shipment by a self-driving truck.
Yes, the pokéhype is now a matter of business, 'cause now Pokémon Go is actually making money for the video games giant, Nintendo. Oh boy, and they say games are for kids.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).