Driverless vans, drones, and the next phase of automated deliveries Do you remember the futuristic movies that showed us what daily life might look like 50 to 100 years from now: the autonomous cars in Minority Report or the drone deliveries and parachuting packages in The Hunger Games? Well, you might be [...]
Keep On Trucking As founder and CEO of Hyliion, Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Thomas Healy has designs on revolutionizing the shipping industry by modifying the country’s 6 million tractor-trailers to save energy. “Hyliion’s business model can have a positive impact on the world, through emission reduction, by hybridizing 18-wheelers,” Healy said. Hyliion adds [...]
The U.S. Postal Service Is Reinventing Itself (and You Should Pay Attention) The U.S. Postal Service is a juggernaut. If it were a private company, it would probably rank in the Inc. 5000. It delivers almost 500 million pieces of mail to 156 million addresses in the United States every day. True, [...]
