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Spring Hamptons traffic nightmare as Long Island Rail Road workers go on strike
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (780+ words) North America's largest commuter rail system was shut down Saturday after unionized workers in the New York City area'went on strike. The Long Island Rail Road that serves the city's eastern suburbs ceased operations early Saturday morning after five unions…...
Pedestrian who jumped Denver airport fence dies after being hit by Frontier Airlines plane, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate
1+ week, 54+ min ago (325+ words) A Frontier Airlines plane hit and killed a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles…...
China stopped issuing new robotaxi licenses over a glitch. America can't stop them from rolling into active shooter situations
1+ week, 4+ day ago (305+ words) On March 31, over a hundred of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on the streets of Wuhan. Vehicles stalled on overpasses and elevated roads, trapping passengers for up to two hours. A few weeks later, Beijing suspended all new autonomous…...
Trackers will be added to'emergency vehicles at La Guardia following deadly March collision
2+ week, 2+ day ago (367+ words) Transponders that might have helped pinpoint the location of a fire truck that collided with a landing Air Canada jet in New York will soon be installed on ground vehicles at the region's three major airports. The trackers will be…...
'Capitalism works because the losers die': Kevin O'Leary says it's a 'really bad idea' for the federal government to bail out Spirit Airlines
2+ week, 5+ day ago (810+ words) Spirit Airlines may have only days to secure a lifeline, but multimillionaire investor and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary thinks Washington should let the budget carrier crash and burn. In an interview on Thursday on News Nation's Katie Pavlich Tonight,…...
'This is very transformative for the business': Lyft's head of growth on taking a big step into London's black cab sector
3+ week, 1+ day ago (549+ words) In a little over 12 months, Lyft has gone from a company that operated almost exclusively in the United States and Canada to one with a meaningful claim to be a global mobility player. The latest step came Wednesday when the…...
American Airlines CEO calls United merger 'a non-starter': 'No way to view that as anything but anti-competitive"
3+ week, 1+ day ago (321+ words) American Airlines CEO Robert Isom on Thursday became the latest, and most consequential "no" on the rumored American-United merger. In an interview with CNBC Thursday shortly after the company reported first-quarter earnings, Isom called the merger a "non-starter from the…...
Tesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in Cap Ex anyway
3+ week, 1+ day ago (803+ words) Fortune Tesla stock dives on news that it earned next to nothing on cars in Q1, and plans to spend $25 billion in Cap Ex anyway Tesla's earning calls in the last few quarters have always been a study in extremes: The…...
Uber hit with $5, 000 jury verdict for driver's creepy behavior; company vows to appeal
3+ week, 3+ day ago (437+ words) Rideshare giant Uber is liable for the behavior of a driver who grabbed the inner thigh of a passenger as she was leaving the front seat of his car and asked if he could "keep her" with him, a jury…...
Exclusive: Startup Humble debuts cabless autonomous truck targeting $900 billion U. S. freight industry
3+ week, 4+ day ago (646+ words) The autonomous vehicle wave has its newest entrant. Humble, a San Francisco-based startup, emerged from stealth today with a $24 million seed round and a fully electric autonomous freight vehicle called the Humble Hauler, Fortune learned exclusively. Eclipse led the round,…...