Category: Networked Car

SMC to open 100 add’l RFID sites to meet surge in demand

Newsbytes.PH November 21, 2020

SMC had noted a larger-than-expected spike in applications, particularly from non-regular users hoping to beat the deadline.

Waze rolls out railroad crossing alerts in PH

Newsbytes.PH November 10, 2020

The new feature will automatically alert drivers using the latest version of Waze on Android or iOS that they are approaching a railroad crossing.

DOTr: No further deadline extension for RFID scheme after Dec. 1

Edu Lopez November 9, 2020

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has warned that any delay in the implementation of contactless toll payment scheme would only make motorists and personnel manning the toll plazas vulnerable to the Covid-19.

Huge number of new car sales will be e-vehicles in coming decades: report

Newsbytes.PH November 3, 2020

The advent of Tesla broke “the logjam” that had held since the failure of Thomas Edison’s electric car to gain traction a century earlier and major automakers are hastening to catch up and deploy their own electric vehicles.

Gov’t agencies urged to adopt locally-developed mass transport technologies

Newsbytes.PH October 27, 2020

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has called on government agencies to adopt available mass transportation technologies after Metro Manila ranked a dismal 49th out 50 Asia-Pacific cities in the Urban Mobility Readiness Index conducted by the Oliver Wyman Forum and University of California.