Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services. ©Business Wire
Ford seems to think so and is working with MIT in order to shuttle in a new form of smarter, on-demand mobility service that can predict where it needs to be at any given time, in order to best help people get around.
From September the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cambridge campus will become the testing ground for a fleet of three electric shuttles that will be hitting the roads and walkways around the campus. They can be hailed by students via an app, and students can also use the app to say where they want to be dropped off. However, that's just the start.
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