France just voted to ban all short-range domestic flights that could be covered by train instead. It’s a healthy reminder that all of this our world that prioritizes cheap air travel, car commuting, the cheap and fast destruction of our planet doesn’t have to be this way. All that and more in The Morning Shift for April 12, 2021.
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1st Gear: If You Can Take A Train, You Can’t Take A Plane
This is the key aspect of France’s flight ban: The only ones cut are trips that already have an alternate means of more efficient travel by train. As Reuters reports:
Dubai to become first city outside US to operate driverless vehicles
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The plan is to have 4,000 self-driving vehicles by 2030.
Dubai will become the first city outside the US to operate driverless vehicles, the Emirate s Crown Prince has said.
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The plan is to have the first few self-driving vehicles by 2023, which will go up to 4,000 by 2030.
This came as Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, met Jeff Bleich, Legal Executive Director of autonomous vehicle company General Motors-Cruise.
Taking to Twitter, the Crown Prince said the partnership would make Dubai the first city outside of the USA to operate self-driving cruise vehicles.
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Emirates Steel, a leading integrated steel producer in the Middle East, and SAFEEN Group, the marine service arm of Abu Dhabi Ports, both part of ADQ, have announced the commencement of transhipment operations, as part of a 10-year agreement previously signed between the two parties in 2019.
As per the agreement, SAFEEN will work closely with Emirates Steel to provide short marine shipping services for three shipments of iron ore per month and will be responsible for the purchase, rental, delivery, operation and maintenance of cargo ships, trailers, and unloading equipment for the steel manufacturer.
Serving as the company’s latest venture into the transhipment business vertical, and as one of the largest active transhipment agreements (by volume) within the Arabian Gulf region, the contract will be delivered via a converted Post-Panamax bulk – the largest bulk commercial vessel ever registered under the UAE flag – along with three self-propelled and self-disc
Dubai said Monday that U.S. self-driving car company Cruise will become the first to operate autonomous taxis and ride-hailing services in the United Arab Emirates city of more than three million people. It is the first venture outside of the U.S. for General Motors-owned Cruise, which has been operating electric vehicles in San Francisco for years, although it just recently began testing without the safety of a backup driver in the car. Cruise plans to begin offering a fully autonomous ride-hailing service there but it has not said when that will begin.