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Welcome to Miami’s traffic-clogged slice of paradise, Fetii.

With $7.35 million in support from investors that include Mark Cuban and Y Combinator, Austin-based on-demand ride-share company Fetii has arrived in the Miami area, Forbes reported.

But Fetii’s offering is different from the rest of the pack. It offers ride-share service only to groups in vans for up to about 14 or 15 passengers. The service, like others, is booked and paid through its app, but Fetii splits the tab between the passengers. It’s for any group that needs to get from point A to point B, the startup says, such as for friends’ outings, corporate shuttle service, and big events.

Fetii reports that it achieves a cost per seat that is 50% to 70% lower than traditional rideshares, as well as higher margins for fleet operators. “By using AI to solve the complex logistics of on-demand group boarding and autonomous fair-splitting, we are unlocking a segment of the mobility market that has been fundamentally underserved and inefficient,” said Fetii co-founder and CEO Matthew Iommi, in an email.

The company’s announcement follows a three-week beta test in the South Florida market, which Fetii defines as Fort Lauderdale to Miami, including Key Biscayne and Miami Beach, Iommi told Forbes.

Source: RefreshMiami

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CoMotion Miami 2026 will convene global leaders during a transformative time for urban innovation and the transportation sector. From changing how we deliver cargo, small packages and food, shifting how we provide passenger transportation around cities and the world, the use of automation and artificial intelligence in mobility, supporting megaevents such as the World Cup and Olympics, managing regulations as our transit systems change, curb management, and transit funding the programming will emphasize practical implementation over theoretical discussion. The conference will also serve as a platform for public-private collaboration with global mayors, innovative policymakers, public transport agencies, technology founders, disruptors, and VC investors all expected to attend.

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• Doug Bermudez, Chief, Fare Programs & Customer Experience Miami-Dade County DOT
• Karina Ricks, Partner Cityfi Advisors
• Laura Chace, President & CEO ITS America
• Craig Toth, Vice President, HNTB
• Stacy Miller, Director & CEO, Miami-Dade County DTPW
• Yariel Diaz, Director, Government Affairs, Serve Robotics
• Andy Boenau, Director of Transportation, City of Richmond
• Aileen Bouclé, Executive Director, Miami-Dade TPO
• Gustavo Grande, Director of Innovation, PortMiami

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Rideshare App Empower Remains Defiant As Maryland Tries to Regulate It Like Uber

Empower has been locked in a tit-for-tat with the state for years over its refusal to register as a company that provides transportation services. Maryland’s Public Service Commission, which regulates public utilities including rideshares and taxis, alleged in a 2024 complaint that Empower has been operating as a transportation company illegally in the state.

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Free Ride Share Program Proposed for Pueblo Youth

The program, called Arrive Alive 719, would provide free rides home for youth ages 15 to 22. It would operate Thursday through Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., filling a service gap after Pueblo's public transit closes. Between 2016 and 2021, the city lost 22 teenagers to vehicle crashes, most of them on Saturday nights. The Boys and Girls Club of Pueblo is one of several partners seeking a solution to decrease these accidents.

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What’s Motivating Philadelphians to Attack Autonomous Tech

Lindsay Ouellette was pretty used to seeing food delivery robots before they arrived in Philly, having used them in experiments for her doctoral dissertation at Temple University. That said, she was still stunned to encounter her first Uber Eats delivery robot in the wild last month, rolling in front of her near the corner of 18th and Chestnut Streets.

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Powering Up Ontario's Workforce with the Electric Drive Vehicle Technician Program

The field of clean transport is the fastest growing industry in Canada's clean energy sector, with hybrid vehicle sales in 2025 up 60% over the previous year. With more green vehicles on the road, the demand for qualified EV technicians is rising exponentially, and Durham College (DC) is helping to meet it. Last fall, we launched our newest future-focused program; the two-year Electric Drive Vehicle Technician diploma.

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Canada Pours C$10.6 Million into Charging Network amid EV Push

Canada announced it is investing C$10.6 million in 14 EV charging infrastructure projects across the country, as the Government continues to extend the intent of its recently launched Auto Strategy — that includes a focus on electric vehicles.

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Canadians Speak Out: Are Vehicle Headlights Putting Night Drivers at Risk?

Transport Canada has opened a nationwide consultation to better understand how vehicle headlight glare affects road users at night. The survey, open until April 20, asks Canadians over 16 to share their experiences, opinions, and behaviours with vehicle lighting. Officials say that while new headlight technologies can improve visibility for drivers, they can also cause discomfort or reduced visibility for others.

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Black Cab Drivers Smashing TfL Safety, Equality and Regulation Test As Private Hire Pass Rates Lag Far Behind

Taxi drivers in London are passing the Safety, Equality and Regulatory Understanding (SERU) test at far higher rates than private hire drivers, according to new data released by Transport for London (TfL) following a Freedom of Information request. The figures, covering the period from 1 October 2025 to 2 April 2026, show that 94% of taxi driver candidates passed the SERU assessment, compared with just 54% of private hire driver applicants.

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Pony.ai, Uber & Verne: Europe’s First Commercial Robotaxis

Pony.ai, Uber and Verne have launched the first commercial robotaxi service in Europe.

The service is live in Zagreb, Croatia and at least nine robotaxis have already been deployed, operating between 7am and 9pm. These vehicles can each transport two passengers across key districts of the Croatian capital with plans to expand in the near future. Uber and Lyft have also announced trial deployments in London in 2026 after the companies partnered with China's Baidu for Apollo Go robotaxis.

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New Research Body Launched to Prepare UK for Driverless Vehicles

A new independent research body – the Institute for Driverless Transport – has been established to prepare the UK for the consequences of autonomous vehicles. More than 200 policymakers, business leaders, researchers, tech entrepreneurs and trade union representatives gathered in London for the launch on Thursday (April 9).

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Taxi Drivers’ Protests in Colombia Reach Bogota’s Airport

Taxi drivers’ protests in Bogota escalated since yesterday to one of the city’s most sensitive areas: access routes to El Dorado International Airport. What began as a sector-wide strike ended in blockades, verbal confrontations, and a significant disruption to the mobility of thousands of passengers trying to reach or leave the air terminal.

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Vinfast Limo Green Electric Taxi Spied Ahead of Launch

Vinfast is a relatively new player in India’s automotive space. It is now preparing for the next big launch here- an electric MPV. The company also plans to enter the commercial vehicle / fleet space with this product. The private vehicle version will be called VF MPV 7 while the fleet version will have the name ‘Limo Green’. The latter has now been spied.

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Taxi Passengers Won’t Benefit from Hong Kong’s 50% Reduction in Tunnel Tolls

Hong Kong taxi passengers will still have to pay full tunnel tolls despite government relief measures that cut the fee for commercial vehicles by half, transport authorities have said. The Transport and Logistics Bureau said on Friday that the relief measure, contained in a package to support the transport sector as oil prices rise, was aimed at helping commercial vehicle drivers and operators.

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Lawyers for Quebec taxi drivers, who say the province’s 2019 taxi reform amounted to a disguised expropriation, will ask the Supreme Court to hear the case after a Quebec appeals court overturned a decision awarding the drivers around $219 million in compensation.

The class-action lawsuit, which includes around 7,000 drivers, claims taxi permits had become a form of property and that when Quebec ended the permit system following ride-hailing company Uber’s arrival in the province, permit-holders should have been compensated the same way they would have been if the government had expropriated any other type of property.

The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled against the drivers in late March, finding that the permits weren’t true property and that as a result, the rules around expropriation didn’t apply.

“While a taxi owner’s permit clearly possesses characteristics of an item of property,” the three-judge panel wrote in its decision, “the court finds that they do not, however, confer a property right that could be subject to expropriation by the state in this case.”

Lawyers for the taxi drivers say they will now ask Canada’s highest court for permission to appeal the decision.

“There is no doubt that this is a disappointing and difficult decision. The people who are members of this class action are overwhelmingly elderly folks, older people who, for many of them, their taxi-owner permit was their retirement,” said Lex Gill, a lawyer with the firm Trudel, Johnston and Lespérance and one of several lawyers representing the drivers.

Before Quebec’s 2019 taxi reform, an operator’s permit was needed for each cab in the province, and while the government limited the number of permits in each region, it allowed drivers to resell them.

Source: The Gazette

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