Tag Archives: rides
Mirroring grandfather, Kim rides the rails to Trump summit
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — For his second summit with President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opted to go retro — riding the rails like his grandfather decades before.
NASA mulls buying new rides to space from Russia amid program delays
The U.S. space agency has since had to rely on Russia’s Roscosmos program to ferry astronauts to the orbital space station at a cost of roughly $ 80 million per seat, NASA has said. After 2019 there are no seats available on the spacecraft for U.S. crew, and a NASA advisory panel recommended on Friday that the U.S. space program develop a contingency plan to guarantee access to the station in case technical problems delay Boeing and SpaceX any further. A NASA spokesman on Friday characterized a solicitation request NASA filed on Wednesday as a contingency plan.
Ex-Google driverless car firm Waymo begins charging for self-driving car rides in Arizona
Lyft Announces Half-Price (And Free!) Rides To The Polls For Midterms
Elon Musk promises free rides through tunnel, but to where?
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is promising the public “free rides” in the next few months through the first high-speed passenger tunnel drilled beneath Los Angeles by his aptly named underground transit venture, the Boring Company. The question is whether the tunnel as advertised by Musk on social media will live up to the sensation he stirred by suggesting commuters will soon get to sample a new subterranean traffic system he has under development in the nation’s second-largest city. The tunnel shown in an attention-getting video clip Musk posted to Instagram on Thursday actually runs not under Los Angeles but beneath the tiny, adjacent municipality of Hawthorne, where his Boring Company and SpaceX rocket firm are both headquartered.
Boring Company tunnel under LA nearly done, free rides to public in few months
Elon Musk revealed Thursday that the first tunnel from his newest transport venture The Boring Company is almost ready and that the public will be able to test it out for free within a few months. The Boring Company last December released a map of its proposed tunnels for L.A. In Musk’s latest announcement, he revealed that The Boring Company will require regulatory approval before any public testing can take place.
Drunken Man Rides Horse Onto California Freeway, Police Say
A look at plans for new rides and more at Disney parks
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disney is calling upon the "Guardians of the Galaxy" and a cohort of blockbuster movies to help modernize its amusement parks.
