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Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test

The Verge

For the first time, two people rode a hyperloop pod through a nearly airless tube at 100 mph Virgin Hyperloop announced that for the first time it has conducted a test of its ultra-fast transportation system with human passengers. The DevLoop test track is 500 meters long and 3.3 It’ll be a bit short,” Giegel said before the test.

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Glydways wants to reinvent transit—no more than four passengers at a time

Fast Company Tech

Its first green-lit project (after a temporary test track now under construction next to an abandoned mall in Richmond, Calif.) The closest visual parallel: the pod-like Zoox robotaxis now rolling around Vegas in test drives. And its funding by big-name Silicon Valley investors does not make it a ride for the 1%.

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The Station: Elon’s Tesla share sale, Ford teases a second EV truck and GM’s Cruise spending ramps

TechCrunch

Mobileye has begun testing its self-driving vehicles in Miami and Stuttgart. It’s unclear just how many vehicles are in either test fleet. The company is gearing up for a large-scale road test in May with a fleet of more than 50 vehicles to be conducted in Guangzhou. Electric vehicles, batteries and charging.

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‘Weaponized environmentalism’? A Texas Republican wants to test wastewater for abortion medication

Fast Company Tech

While that might sound like an uncharacteristically environmentally forward cause for a Texas Republican, what the senator wants to test for may give you even greater pause: Its the abortion medication mifepristone. Further, Garrett explained that the method proposed in the bill won’t address the problem of EDCs in wastewater.

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Trump’s EPA wants to get rid of a rule that protects you from chemical disasters

Fast Company Tech

Another leak at a Union Carbide facility in West Virginia the following year caused eye, throat, and lung irritation for at least 135 residents. But in the days following the incident, neither the company nor state and federal environmental regulators responded to locals questions about what chemicals the air was being tested for.

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