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- Mobility Lab, part of Virginia’s Arlington County government, surveys the literature to figure out whether local governments should care about car sharing.
- The Get Taxi e-hail app rebrands as Gett, because why limit yourself?
- The Atlantic Cities’ Emily Badger digs into what happens on the insurance front should you get hit by an Uber-using driver.
- In Georgetown, two passengers are stabbed by what police have determined is “some sort of taxi or sedan driver.”
- ESRI’s CityEngine 3D software is getting capable of modeling 100,000 buildings in a few minutes.
- Former Atlanta mayor Sam Massell explains why mobility is “man’s ‘fifth freedom.’”
- Salon’s Henry Graber wonders when the “bike vote” became a thing.
- And homeless people in Sacramento were presented Monday with “an all-star lineup of area food trucks” from places like “Krush Burgers, Drewski’s, Swabbie’s, Gameday Grill, BaconMania, Chando’s Tacos and Simply Southern Food.”
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.