Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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Honda bicycle simulator teaches safety without all the scrapes

Submitted by admin on November 23, 2009 – 3:43 pmNo Comment

df235159b828973.jpg Honda bicycle simulator teaches safety without all the scrapes

Some lucky folks in Japan will be able to learn about bike safety using Honda’s fancy simulator setup you see above, rather than flying over their handlebars and developing forehead welts the size of golf balls. (Thanks, dad!)

While it looks like something you’d see in the corner of an arcade, the arrangement adds up to more than just a game. The system can simulate different conditions — demonstrating the danger of riding in the rain or snow, for instance — can detect when someone gets on or off the bike and allows the rider to see replays of her riding experience from multiple views, after she’s all done.

Honda plans to install 500 of the units in schools and offices in the company’s native Japan. We probably won’t ever see it here in the States, though it’s not like Japan hasn’t surreptitiously slipped bike-ride-simulating gaming into the States before.

Via Crunch Gear

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