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RoboTrucks from Mercedes-Benz to Hit US Highways Within 10 Years; Mish Supply Chain Proposal

MishTalk

Mercedes-Benz has announced “ Future Truck 2025 ?, That’s because the “Future Truck 2025? With the idea that humans who drive less cause less trouble, Mercedes equipped the Future Truck 2025 with the “Highway Pilot” automated system. “It Time Flies Faster Than Expected Mercedes-Benz calls the project “Future Truck 2025?.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. This technology can be fitted into regular production trucks and is a huge step towards fully autonomous transportation. And as I have stated numerous times, millions of truck driving and taxi driving jobs will vanish by 2025 at the latest.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Robots, Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy 5.1 Million Jobs by 2020

MishTalk

I expect millions of truck hauling and taxi jobs will vanish soon, in the USA alone, by 2025. Moreover, it is now possible to create cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats that are completely or partly autonomous, which could revolutionize transportation, if regulations allow, as early as 2020. Uber ties into this category as well.

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Self-Driving "WEpod" Shuttles Hit the Road in Europe; Autonomous Car Updates

MishTalk

It was developed for Citymobil2, an EU-funded project looking at automated road transport systems across urban Europe. Through Citymobil2, the electric driverless shuttles have already transported 19,000 passengers in Vantaa, Finland and carried passengers on the EPFL university campus, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Your Business Is Going to Depend on Connected Spenders, So You’d Better Understand Who They Are

Harvard Business

Today connected spenders count for about 19% of the global population, and that is projected to grow to 37% by 2025. where internet access is just shy of 90%, only 36% of the population are currently connected spenders, a number that will grow to over 50% by 2025. In markets such as the U.S.,

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Uber Also based in San Francisco and launched more recently in 2010, Uber uses a smartphone app to receive requests of people needing transportation, and then sends out these requests to their drivers who transport the customers to their final destinations. billion since its launch.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business

But import duties, taxes, transportation costs, and slow supply chains can cause the market size to be very limited in India with such an approach. We suggest a three-step strategy in manufacturing: Use CMOs to establish beach heads to understand market dynamics. Set up low-cost manufacturing units in India that increase profitability.