Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Privacy while driving

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 Internet connected cars collect lots of data on driving behavior, which can be sold to insurance companies and used to change drivers' ...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Prohibition, Moonshine, and the origins of stock car racing (NASCAR)

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Prohibition (and before and after prohibition, high taxes) gave rise to black markets in alcohol. Some of the participants in those markets ...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Digital data yields suspect in Idaho murders (NYT)

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 The NYT has the story of how a wide ranging search of a large variety of digital data  led to an arrest of a suspect (whose trial hasn'...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Price versus waiting time in a ride sharing market

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Here's an interesting paper on ride sharing, with estimates of the tradeoffs that individuals make between price and waiting time. The ...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Waze carpool--launched nationwide

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At the NBER market design conference , Michael Schwarz spoke of market design with his practioner hat on (he's Microsoft's chief ec...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Modern congestion pricing, by Cramton, Geddes and Ockenfels

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Here's a short paper in the July 31 Nature: Set road charges in real time to ease traffic Track vehicles to link tolls with demand an...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Dealing with shortages of deceased donors in a future with fewer automobile accidents

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Sometimes you find out that someone has already worried about something that you haven't even thought of worrying about.  I worry about...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Too many traffic jams: an interview with Stanford's Mike Ostrovsky (and a paper by Ostrovsky and Schwarz)

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Mike Ostrovsky at Stanford GSB is interviewed on technology and traffic: An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream And here's...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

2018 BEIJING INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE EXHIBITION

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I am on my way to the auto show in Beijing as a guest of NIO, the Chinese electric car company. From Google translate: " **...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Google knocks on Uber's door with a ride-sharing service using Waze

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The WSJ has the story about how Google/Alphabet will capitalize on Waze/Google Maps to offer drivers ride shares with people on their route...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Mergers of taxi-hailing services in Europe, and China

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Europe is preparing to defend itself against Uber. Bloomberg has the story: Daimler Targets Uber by Merging Mytaxi With U.K.’s Hailo &qu...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Autos as platforms: the market for radio, and the connected car

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The NY Times has a story on the fight that Sirius radio won, and the challenges that it faces SiriusXM Fights to Dominate the Dashboard of...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Straw in the wind: Google's Waze is piloting a ridesharing marketplace in Israel

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Ynet has the story: Google's Waze to start carpooling pilot program in Israel Mapping company launching RideWith, which will allow co...
Monday, June 1, 2015

The market for robotics talent

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The labor market for computer scientists is thriving. The collaboration between Uber and Carnegie Mellon University on driverless-car tec...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

The wholesale used car market

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My colleague Brad Larsen has an NBER paper that looks at the post-auction bargaining for used cars that didn't reach their reserve pri...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Chinese auctions of auto registrations, and the market for cars in China

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To keep down congestion in big cities, Chinese authorities limit who can drive, either by lottery or by auction.  Here's a story suggest...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

What would the national kidney foundation like you to donate?

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Advertisement seen at St. Louis airport
Friday, November 27, 2009

Rules of the road for cars and bikes

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In many places where cars and bikes share a road, they customarily (if not legally) follow different rules. In England, a trial program will...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Entrepreneurial Market Design

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In the coming weeks, I'll be making a series of posts on a subject I term Entrepreneurial Market Design , the study of creating for-prof...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Behavioral game theory on the MA Turnpike

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A recent story in the Boston Globe sounds like a behavioral economics seminar on transaction costs: why are a third of the tolls on the Mass...
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