Quotes About Transportation

Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics…or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?

No?" Winston's voice remained flat. "Then let me ask you this famous question: Would you rather live in a world without technology…or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics…or without zealots waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?

Then let me ask you this famous question: would you rather live in a world without technology ... or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics ... or without zealots waging war over fictional take us an imaginary spirits? - Winston

like corks. To Langdon's surprise, dozens of gondolas were making this same crossing. Their slender hulls—at nearly forty feet in length and almost fourteen hundred pounds—appeared remarkably stable in the rough waters. Each vessel was piloted by a sure-footed gondolier

The car is my father's magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.

His cars were his magic carpets.

The "triad"—the convergence of electric vehicles, ride hailing, and self-driving cars—is far from sure. It will take electrics a long time to catch up with gasoline-powered cars as a share of the fleet. People may continue to want to own cars and drive themselves. Autonomous vehicles at scale are far from proved.

Mary Barra of GM said. "But they're going to have multiple ways that they can do that." Her ultimate goal, she said, is "a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.

the result could well be the rise of a new breed of firm—Big Mobility companies that embody what would be the transformative world of Auto-Tech.

The "triad"—the convergence of electric vehicles, ride hailing, and self-driving cars—is far from sure.

The coronavirus crisis demonstrated the degree to which digitalization has become a competitor with transportation, using electrons to connect people rather than molecules to move them.

an entrepreneur from a small North Carolina town once known as Shoe Heel. Yet Malcom McLean, otherwise known as "Idea-a-Minute" McLean, is one of the most consequential figures in the history of transportation.

On April 26, 1956, cranes at the port of Newark, New Jersey, lifted up fifty-eight truck bodies, minus their wheels and cabins, and put them on a surplus World War II tanker bound for Texas. "We are convinced that we have found a way to combine the economy of water transportation with the speed and flexibility of overland shipment," McLean announced.

Cars generate about 6 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions.

In 1900, electrics far outnumbered gasoline cars on the streets in New York City. No one was a more powerful advocate of the electric car than the great inventor Thomas Edison, who poured a lot of his own money, along with his reputation and effort, into trying to perfect an electric vehicle.

While millions of miles have now been driven by test driverless cars, humans drive more than eight billion miles every day in the United States.

It has strong environmental appeal, although in some places it is running on coal-generated electricity. This would make those EVs what some call "EEVs"—"emissions elsewhere vehicles.

The search for "better cab" was not limited to the United States. Cheng Wei, an engineer at the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, missed several flights in China because of his failure to get a taxi in time. Fed up, in 2012 he founded DiDi, which means "beep beep" in Chinese. Now called DiDi Chuxing after a merger, it has become the largest ride-hailing company in the world.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from natural objects and specified meanings but when they are liberated from the usual quality of that meaning by transportation into another medium, the imagination.

era como si Dios revocara la ley de gravedad cuando tienes que cargar una maleta pesada por un corredor de aeropuerto de diez manzanas de largo.

After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

But no serious student of the subject would claim that the constitutional grant of authority to Congress to regulate "commerce among the several states" was limited to the regulation of sailing ships and stagecoaches to the exclusion of steamboats, railroads, automobiles, and airplanes.

The act finally deregulated the rail industry, repealing the legislation that had created the Interstate Commerce Commission nearly a century previously.