🛴 From June 7, e-scooters will finally be launched in London!

The winners are the exact same trio which won the equally competitive Paris scooter licence last summer: Berlin-based Tier, Amsterdam-based Dott and US-based Lime.

From June 7, these three operators will unleash up to 6.6k e-scooters on the streets of London, as part of a year-long trial to assess the pros and cons of adding this form of transport to the city’s mix.

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🇩🇪🚘 Germany gives greenlight to driverless vehicles on public roads

Germany has adopted legislation that will allow driverless vehicles on public roads by 2022, laying out a path for companies to deploy robotaxis and delivery services in the country at scale. While autonomous testing is currently permitted in Germany, this would allow operations of driverless vehicles without a human safety operator behind the wheel. 

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🤔Indonesian ride-hailing giant Gojek uses a complex system of reward and punishment to motivate its drivers

Again, incredible report from rest of world (you should subscribe to their newsletter!). As the company transitions to profitability, it’s squeezing contractors. Gojek has already cut bonuses. Drivers used to get additional incentives for hitting 14 points in a day, but, starting in around 2017, those were progressively cut, until they were ended entirely in 2020...

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🧙‍♂️Discover Merlin and its autonomous flights 

Merlin Labs’ has performed “a couple hundred” autonomous missions from takeoff to touchdown across the three generations of its experimental system. Merlin's system is a drop-in autonomy kit that can be adapted across aircrafts. While there is a human pilot monitoring the aircraft on the ground that can take over in case of an emergency, planes retrofitted with Merlin Labs’ system operate on their own.

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