This week on an audio-only New World Next Week: AI predicts the future of human rights trials; nonsense paper accepted for academic conference; and the bard gets a coauthor.
(ANTIMEDIA) John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft, released a 14-page manifesto yesterday describing the ride-sharing company’s “Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond.” In it, Zimmer not only predicts that the majority of the company’s vehicles will be driverless within five years, but also asserts that “by 2025, private car ownership will all-but end in major U.S. cities.”
Darrell Hill of the US Olympic shot put team has a dad that couldn’t be prouder of his son’s accomplishments. The former bus driver-turned Uber driver, Ellis, is so proud that he tells everyone who enters his car that his son is on the US Olympic team.
However, because of a shortage of funds, Ellis Hill thought he wasn’t going to be able to make the trip to Rio to see his son compete for his country in person. But then he picked up Liz Willock on July 26. Proud of his son’s accomplishments, he bragged about him to Willock, as any doting father would.
Chicago-based Uber driver Jose Figueroa could have considered it his lucky day when his passenger left a wallet filled with $3,000 cash in his car during an Uber trip. But Figueroa, knowing how much the man needed it, instead decided to return it to its rightful owner.
Pokémon control, broader biometrics and the drone zone + this day in history w/the Bisbee Deportation and our song of the day by Mindz Of A Different Kind on your Morning Monarchy for July 12, 2016.
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Target Liberty | April 16, 2016 Uber Technologies on Tuesday released its first ever transparency report detailing the information requested by not only U.S. law enforcement agencies, but also by regulators. According to Yahoo, the ride-sharing company said that between July and December 2015, it had provided information on more than 12 million riders and […]
Court rules cops can legally lie to pull people over and fish for criminal behavior; Uber is sharing more than just rides as the company's first transparency report shows 12 million users data was shared with the cops; And governments with offshore holdings are worried that others aren't sharing their offshore holdings.
