Industry: Transportation

Landstar System, Inc. is revolutionising the American trucking industry by operating as a unique marketplace, connecting a fragmented network of over 50,000 independent truckers with hundreds of thousands of businesses needing freight services.

In today's episode of The Dive, Sascha and Alec catch you up on what's been happening and ask, who's in poll poition in the race to commercialise self-driving technology?

Today Sascha is joined by Elias Visontay from The Guardian to ask - why is the Australian government allowing this to continue, despite rejecting Qatar Airways' formal request to increase flights?

The ACCC wants to follow Europe’s lead and start fining airlines for cancelled flights. Germany is in recession while the Greek stock market is at new highs. AI leaders want us to worry about an AI extinction event, and Woolies is taking their trucking fleet electric. All this and more on this week’s Comedian v Economist.

Today Sascha and Darcy talk about why food delivery companies are collapsing, and ask themselves... What are they going to do when they are hungover on Sunday morning?

Air travel chaos. Luggage lost, flights cancelled and delayed, hours-long security lines. And the general unrest from travellers is being directed at both airlines and airports. Plenty of COVID-impacted industries are returning to normal - theme parks are reopening, cruise ships are sailing and restaurants and bars are humming - but not air travel... Instead we have airlines blaming airports and airports blaming airlines, all the while travellers wait in longer lines. Today Sascha and Simon ask the question - who’s ultimately at fault, the airlines or the airports? And when can we expect this situation to return to normal?

France has run out of mustard. That’s right, the home of mustard is… mustardless. Supermarkets are limiting sales to one jar per person. Carrefour, a French supermarket giant, is being accused of stockpiling mustard to drive up prices. Chefs are appealing on social media for any spare jars. But behind the funny headlines, there is a devastating story - one that will only get more frequent.

An analysis from Bloomberg found that 5% of new car sales is the magic number for mass adoption of electric vehicles. And the US is the 19th and latest country to cross that threshold. Good news for Tesla. Good news for the climate ... but, is there really a "magic number"?

Virgin's CEO reckons we're going to have to get used to busy airports, sorry, not sorry. Clive Palmer reckons he'll cap mortgage rates at 3% because he's a magician, Sri Lanka's economy is in crisis, and some people reckon the end of US Dollar dominance is nigh. Are they right? All this and more on this week's Comedian v Economist.

Today we’re talking about what promises to be one of the most revolutionary technologies of our lifetime... self-driving cars. We’ve all imagined it, and seen it in movies. A car that drives itself. Enter your destination, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. No more traffic accidents, no more drunk drivers, no more searching for a parking spot… It sounds incredible. Today Alec and Sascha explore how possible that is - and go through some of the recent updates to this new technology.