General Motors Cruise is set to extend operations to Dubai, a media report said.
According to
CNBC, the majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary has signed an agreement with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority to be the exclusive provider for self-driving taxis and ride-hailing services to the end of 2029, starting in 2023.
Financial details have not been disclosed.
CNBC said there was no date yet for when self-driving vehicles were expected to be available to the public in Dubai.
But Cruise expected to operate a fleet of up to 4,000 self-driving vehicles in the United Arab Emirates showcase city by 2030.
CNBC noted Cruise had been concentrating its self-driving vehicle testing in San Francisco and now had a registered testing fleet of over 200 vehicles. It has delayed offering a robotaxi fleet to the public in the California city from an initial plan for 2019.
Cruise lines ready to sail again a mourning family says not so fast By Kate Gibson Cruise lines battle CDC for clearance
As cruise operators push for government clearance to set sail from U.S. ports after more than a year of being docked by COVID-19, a California family is among those demanding the industry be held accountable for its handling of deadly outbreaks of the disease onboard ships in early 2020. We want it so no other families have to go through the nightmare we had to go through, said Miguel Gonzalez, whose father, Lucio, become ill days after leaving a Grand Princess cruise ship operated by Carnival Corporation on February 21, 2020.
Home Bought From Sears Catalog Still Standing In Buffalo
Nowadays you can pretty much order anything online and have it delivered right to your home. But what if it was your new house? Yep.back in the day, people could actually order a new house from the Sears and Roebuck catalog and the company would ship the ship in several pieces to your new address.
Of course, you would have to put the home together yourself and one of those homes is still standing right here in Western New York.
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According to the website buffaloah.com, the home at 16 Tillinghast Place was a home that you could buy right from the Sears Catalog.
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An international crew member on a vessel in waters off Karratha, on Western Australia s northwest coast, has returned positive COVID-19 test result.
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He will be transferred to Royal Perth Hospital later today
The ship remains in Commonwealth waters off the WA coast
The man, in his 50s, is a crew member on board the Aquagenie bulk carrier, which is currently sitting in Commonwealth waters.
WA Premier Mark McGowan said the man became unwell last Thursday and underwent a rapid COVID-19 test which returned a positive result.
He was then brought to shore on the April 11 and taken to the Karratha Health Campus, where a rapid PCR test also returned a positive result.