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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
These Four Charts Show How Uber Steals Turf From Cabs and Spreads Throughout a City BusinessWeek
These Four Charts Show How Uber Steals Turf From Cabs and Spreads Throughout a City BusinessWeek
As part of a data-sharing agreement with Uber and Lyft, Portland officials compiled a detailed report on how ride-hailing apps transformed the city?s transportation patterns in just a few months.
Portland is a city that values its weird traditions, which is partly why it resisted overtures by Uber and other ride-hailing apps to operate there. Eventually, officials gave in. According to a report by the city, the apps swiftly changed Portland in surprising ways. The findings show how quickly ride-hailing providers can gain traction, first grabbing market share from taxis, then expanding the overall car-for-hire market.
As Bloomberg Businessweek chronicled in a June feature, Uber and Lyft hit the streets of Portland in late April under a 120-day trial period. They started operating after a long political effort involving dozens of meetings, classic lobbying, and (among other things) a unicyclist. As part of the temporary approval, the ride-hailing companies agreed to share detailed data on their operations.
In August, the city council extended the trial period for several months so it could finish tweaking the rules. In the meantime, city staffers crunched the data and compiled what they believe is the first comprehensive report by any city based on proprietary information from Uber. Portland shared a copy of the report with Bloomberg, and weve pulled out some of the highlights. The study provides a rare, detailed look into what happens when a city opens up to on-demand apps and how the taxicab industry adapts.
It didnt take long for Uber and Lyft to become as popular as local taxis. In May, taxis provided about 5,500 rides per day; within a month, that fell to about 4,500 rides and basically flat-lined. Demand for ride-hailing services kept growing, from 2,300 average daily rides in May to more than 8,000 in August. Overall, Portlanders took 100,000 more for-hire rides in August than in May. Its worth noting that the Pacific Northwest had an uncharacteristically warm and dry summer, so theres not much reason to think weather played a role in the increase.
In just seven weeks, Uber and Lyft surpassed taxis in providing rides on weekends. While the number of weekend taxi rides initially fell a bit, Portlanders took thousands more trips on weekends in late August than in early May. Saturdays, in particular, are big nights for the ride-hailing apps. In general, the early morning, from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., is the sole time period when taxis provided more rides. The city hypothesizes that this is due to people catching early flights?probably reserving pickups in advance, a service not offered by Uber and Lyft.
Eight percent of all taxi rides started in East Portland, a low-income neighborhood, while only 3 percent of all Uber and Lyft riders originated there. As the summer progressed, Uber and Lyft picked up more riders in less central areas across the city, but demand for their service remained more concentrated than that for taxis around downtown.
Over the four months, Uber and Lyft provided 13 percent of the 3,000 rides taken by people who needed wheelchair-accessible vehicles, leaving taxis to provide the vast majority of the service. Such vehicles are more expensive to operate. In September, Uber expanded its supply of wheelchair-accessible vehicles, so future reports will show whether it can become the provider of choice for all Portlanders, or mainly just those out at night and on weekends.
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Will you format SD card accidentally in these ways and How to rescue formatted file
Will you format SD card accidentally in these ways and How to rescue formatted file
It is quite a common problem for data loss due to formatting an SD card and it wil be difficult for some users to recover the lost files from formatted SD card. Below are most common situations that users may format SD card accidentally.
Format an SD card due to mistake
You are viewing files on your SD card, but mistakenly you press the "Format" button on your camera or PC? No matter the format is completed or not, some files will lost and you cannot access and view the formatted file on SD card anymore. If the format is completed, you will find your SD card will become empty and all data has gone. Even if you stop the format process when you realize the mistake, you will find you are unable to access SD card since it will say SD card is not formatted. Don?t worry, data can still be restored. View Whats The Chance To Recover Files From Formatted SD Card?
Format an SD card to make more space for new files
Sometimes you may want to format an SD card for a particular reason. For example, you may want to erase an SD card in a short time to make space for new files. There is no doubt that formatting an SD card is the most efficient way to erase the card. However, important data or files is also lost after formatting if you forget making a backup.
SD Card Requires Formatting! Format It or Not
Not formatted error can occur on an SD card when it is inserted in adigital camera, Android phone, or PC. This kind of error is not affected by the brand of a camera or Android phone, but it may affect the data stored on the card. SD card not formatted error can occur due to many reasons. In this situation, formatting may overwrite the card and lead data to be unrecoverable. It is strongly recommended not to format the card when it requires formatting.
Format an SD card due to not formatted error
You may ever encounter not formatted error when using an SD card, but you may still feel wondering if you should format the card when receiving the error message: disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now. Format it or not? It is doesn?t matter since 4Card Recovery would also restore data off formatted memory sd card.
SD Card Cannot Be Formatted
Camera or Android smartphone prompt SD card needs to be formatted, and Windows system asks you to format the memory card when you inset the SD card to PC through a card reader. Even when you decide to format the card but you receive a message saying: Windows cannot complete the format. Now, try the following method:
Firstly, right click the drive of SD card and select Properties -> Tools -> Check Now -> Tick "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".
Stop here if the errors can be fixed with the method above. If you receive the following message: "The disk check could not perform because windows cannot access the disk", please click Start -> Run -> Type chkdsk H:/F (H: is the drive letter of your SD card).
If that cannot helps, do not format the SD card and stop use the SD card, then you can download H-Data SD Card File Recovery Software. You can try the free trial version first, if it can detect your lost files, it will be easy to get back lost formatted files with full version.
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Friday, September 30, 2016
These drones are coming for your jobs
These drones are coming for your jobs
Career death from above
Hover-commerce hasnt really landed in the U.S. yet, but when it does, these are the gigs that will be disrupted by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Package delivery could be the (job) killer app of the coming robot air attack. amazon,com, of course, is the elephant in the room, but the packages theyll be delivering will be much smaller than any pachyderm ...
Small packages, huge changes
... and thats perfect, says Amazon, given that 86 percent of the packages they ship weigh under five pounds.
Still awaiting changes in Federal Highway Administration (FAA) regulations that will allow Amazon Prime Air to get off the ground, the package delivery business is nonetheless primed for quite a bit of turbulence.
Theyre in the pipeline
If you have the word roustabout on your resume, youve got some new competition in the job market.
Thats because energy companies such as BP are utilizing drones to inspect pipelines and infrastructure, especially in unforgiving environments like the one highlighted here in a company video from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Judging by the proliferation of UAV services from companies with names like Microdrones.com and Steadicopter.com, this burgeoning industry will soon be booming.
Film at 11, drones right now
News, weather, and traffic pilots better be planning their retirements now, because an eye-in-the-sky drone army reportedly will soon be snapping up many of their gigs.
And in other news, TV stations that could never afford pricey copters and pilots will soon be in the game, too. The Radio Television Digital News Association calls drones "The latest must-have toys for your newsroom," so the skywriting is on the wall.
Stargaze with the worst of em
Now here are some people we really wouldnt mind putting out of work: the paparazzi.
Unfortunately, while photo drones will put some individual razzis out of work, new high-tech UAVs could make the problem of snooping on celebrities even worse, according to CBS News.
After all, efficiency isnt necessarily a benefit if all youre doing more efficiently is violating peoples privacy rights.
Aerial pizza delivery
Its well documented that robots are trying to take our jobs. Well, the ones they dont take may be done by drones ... at least, if this video of a U.K. Dominos Pizza drone test is any indication of things to come.
Self-flying freight planes?
We all know Google, Apple, and others are racing to develop self-driving cars. Yet while self-flying planes are still quite a ways down the runway, delivery drones like this DHL model on the island of Juist in Northern Germany are a first step.
For now, the packages delivered are small shipments of medicine for the islands pharmacy, but eventually, the skys the limit.
Up in the air, down on the farm
Crop dusters could soon find themselves phased out as new ag technology is phased in. Thats because the FAA is now allowing UAV use for herbicide and pesticide spraying.
Not just for crops
Among the reasons cited for allowing farm drone use are "reduced chemical usage, reduced operator and other human exposure to chemicals, no crop damage or soil compaction and greater fuel efficiency."
Another possible application: security. This 2014 photo shows a drone built to fend off farm thieves and attackers in South Africa.
Construction sites, minus the street harassment
Are flying robots the future of road construction? Trade magazine Equipment World wants to know, and so do we. Turns out the construction industry is already starting to use UAVs on job sites to aid in surveying, aerial inspections, and security.
Book it down under
Because the FAA hasnt yet allowed many commercial drone flights in the U.S., much of the hover-commerce action is overseas, as with this textbook delivery system test from Australian startup Zookal.
Drone inspectors
People who crawl around bridges to do government inspections could be out of a job.
Based on the findings of a study by the FHA and the Georgia Department of Transportation, UAVs would likely do the job more safely and efficiently. Technicians would still need to control the drones ? for now ? but fully autonomous inspector bots are a future possibility.
Drones could go deep
Pilots, surveyors, and engineers could soon face new pressures as the mining industry employs more drones to do all or part of their jobs.
Aerial surveying, safety mapping, and prospecting will all benefit from this technology shift, which could also significantly reduce costs. The website Canadian Mining & Energy notes that drones might work especially well in open pit mines, where hi-def terrain photos could reveal how much material has been moved daily.
Flying assistant for Indiana Jones
Professors hot to advance their research may now have less need for assistants and more need for drones.
In one example from an increasing number of cases involving UAVs uncovering ancient ruins, a professor in New Mexico found a 1,000-year-old village buried in the desert using thermal-imaging drones to see beneath the surface.
"Just a few days work allowed us to do something which would have taken a decade of work," Dr. John Kantner told CBS News.
Cyclone rangers
Best known for exploring planetary bodies such as Mars and Pluto, NASA has also been experimenting closer to home with its Global Hawk drone aircraft. Designed to observe tropical cyclones, as seen in this image of tropical storm Frank, the Global Hawk provides sophisticated remote sensing including radar, HD photography, and data for meteorological analysis.
Big science? Very cool. But thats one small step for a machine, one less job for a pilot.
Real estate photography
Helicopter jocks and the photogs who hire them are on the verge of losing out on lucrative business shooting for realtors, thanks to a creeping infestation of drones.
As noted previously, the FAA has allowed very few UAVs into our airspace, but with new regulations pending, thats about to change.
Beer me, drone!
Minnesota ice fishermen got frozen out by the FAA after Lakemaid Beers UAV was banned from flying the beverages to Mille Lacs Lake. As reported by CNN and others, regulators grounded the hops-hauling drones back in 2014.
Clearly, the brewski-tech pioneers at Lakemaid were just ahead of their time, and we can only hope our meddling government overlords will soon right this lunker of an injustice.
Because, as anyone whos been ice fishing will attest, you pretty much need beer to do the job right. And walking to shore on a resupply mission over the ice and snow is just no fun.
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