Google Invests $1 Million In Futurama-like Transportation
This is actually a little old news but new to me so I thought I’d share. Google has invested $1 million in a New Zealand company that makes a transportation system called Shweeb. What is it exactly? It’s a mix between a roller coaster and a bicycle.
Google Inc. initiated Project 10^100 as a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. People from around the world submitted over 150,000 ideas that they wanted to bring to life. “Drive innovation in public transportation” was one of the five winning ideas, voted on by the public. Google Inc. subsequently searched the globe and selected Shweeb as the organisation with the most forward looking transportation vision and with the relevant expertise to implement such an idea.
