All posts tagged "Transport"

US electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla plans to unveil its long-promised "Robotaxi" self-driving car on August 8, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced on Friday. Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, did not provide any further details in his very brief post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, which he owns. According to earlier statements, the autonomous vehicle will be based on a new technical platform that is intended to make production more efficient and cost-effective. Musk has been promising for years that Teslas will drive autonomously - and that this will radically change the val......

Baltimore (AFP) - Three heavy lift floating cranes arrived in Baltimore harbor on Friday to begin what Maryland's governor described as a "remarkably complex operation" to clear crumpled girders from a collapsed bridge taken down by an errant container ship. "To see it up close, you realize just how daunting a task this is," Maryland Governor Wes Moore told a news conference after touring the disaster scene in a boat. Migrant groups meantime honored the six Latino construction workers who lost their lives when the Dali container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge long before dawn Tuesday......

Baltimore (AFP) - Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after the poet who penned the lyrics to the US national anthem, used to carry an average of around 31,000 vehicles a day across one of the busiest harbors in the United States. Its nighttime collapse, within seconds of being struck by a container ship, is likely to cause substantial economic damage for as long as it continues to block shipping in the Port of Baltimore.   The bridge's dramatic destruction shut the port for all maritime traffic, which last year accounted for more than 52 million tons of foreign cargo, worth some $80 b......

Washington (AFP) - A major bridge in the US city of Baltimore collapsed Tuesday after a ship collided with it, sending up to 20 people and multiple vehicles plunging into the water below. Dramatic CCTV footage shows what appears to be a container ship hitting a footing of the Francis Scott Key bridge, sending the entire steel-built structure into the Patapsco River. Lights from what appear to be vehicles can be seen on the road surface as the bridge warps and crashes in sections, with the third tranche cantilevering upwards before it, too, tumbles into the water. "Unfortunately, we understand ......

Commuters who cycle to work are less likely to be prescribed antidepressants, new research shows. Analysis of almost 380,000 people living in Scotland suggests commuting by bike reduces the risk of mental ill health. Commuting by bike led to greater reductions in mental health prescriptions in women than in men, according to research from the University of Edinburgh – although men were more likely to cycle. Researchers combined data for 378,253 people aged 16-74 from the 2011 Scottish census with prescription records from Britain's National Health Service for the following five years. The peop......

Niagara Falls (Canada) (AFP) - A car erupted into a fireball at a US-Canada checkpoint near Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing the two occupants, triggering border closures and sparking a massive security alert on the eve of a major holiday. The regional FBI field office concluded the blast, which occurred around 400 miles (640 kilometers) northwest of New York City, was not linked to terrorism. Witnesses described seeing a car traveling at high speed before it crashed into a checkpoint barrier and exploded into flames. The blast happened at the major Rainbow Bridge crossing near Niagara Fall......