On Friday, the CHP re-inspected Chariot and the company "passed all inspections," Chariot CEO Ali Vahabzadeh wrote in an email to customers today.
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Only the emperor was allowed to have a chariot drawn by six horses, the number that lay beside the large chariot in the middle.
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Chariot: The best proof of this is Chariot, a three-year-old startup that provides commuters with rides on comfortable 14-seat busses for a few dollars.
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Chariot (2014 – 2019) Total raised: $3 million, acquired by Ford in 2017 Chariot was a shuttle startup hoping to reinvent mass transit with a fleet of vans for commuters.
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Chariot will know the train is running seven minutes late so Chariot won't have to take up curb space for seven minutes, because it'll all be on the same software platform.
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The surface roads, where Chariot would operate, are no better.
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Thule Chariot Lite 2 Multisport Trailer for $552 ($298 off).
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Chariot cars will initially drive by in 10 minute intervals.
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Palmeri has invested in Poshmark, Chariot, and ClassDojo, for context.
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Swing low, sweet old chariot, coming to carry me home.
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Chariot will also grow out to at least five more markets in the next 18 months, according to Ford and Chariot, and the next market will be revealed sometime in the next few weeks.
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Chariot, the Ford-owned collaborative carpooling service currently operating in the Bay area, has launched advance reservations, letting riders book a seat on a Chariot up to seven days ahead of their actual trip.
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In that bubble, time's winged chariot and much else don't exist.
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Brooks Chariot Heritage Running Shoes, $44.98 (originally $89.99), available at Huckberry.
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Though many people compare services like Express Pool to buses, it works a lot more like existing on-demand shuttle services like Via or even Chariot — except Chariot operates fixed routes based on demand along those routes.
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Chariot started in San Francisco but has had its eye on growing.
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The replica chariot used in the 2000 film Gladiator sold for $49,907.
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Chariot, the microtransit service owned by Ford, is going out of business.
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We're really excited that Chariot can become a part of the solution.
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In Plato's metaphor, the soul is a chariot guided by two horses.
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A goddess of victory sits on the chariot holding a laurel crown.
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Comparing to like a Chariot or Via, yes, those rideshare options exist.
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Ford acquired Chariot and Israeli machine learning and computer vision startup SAIPS.
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"How did the cops know which chariot to pull over?" jests the other.
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Today, the CEO announced the automaker is acquiring crowd-sourced shuttle company Chariot.
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Chariot and Ford declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal.
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The chariot statue on the Brandenburg Gate is another product of the collection.
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Roman chariot racers were said to have nurtured their steeds with honeyed water.
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So it's against the turbulent backdrop that Chariot arrives in New York City.
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Chariot crowdsources its routes as well as its pickup and drop-off locations.
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Chariot for Women will be active in the Boston area on April 19.
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"If you will indulge me, there's a chariot," she said, practically skipping off.
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This is where Chariot, a rapidly expanding, crowd-sourced shuttle service, comes in.
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JIM HACKETT CAME IN, STARTED IT. WE BOUGHT CHARIOT, THERE WERE SIX PEOPLE.
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As is this bike and cart decked out like a horse and chariot.
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Six months earlier, Ford shut down its shuttle-based ride-sharing service, Chariot.
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In March, it ended operations of Chariot, a shuttle-based ride-sharing service.
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Acquiring firms like Chariot is particularly critical for Ford's future success, Robinson said.
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But time's winged chariot hurrying, et cetera: We'll do that dish this weekend.
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For a long time, the car was the chariot for all of India's leaders.
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In order to drive passenger buses, Chariot operators need to have Class B licenses.
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Chariot was founded in 2014, and has actually used Ford vehicles since day one.
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"Chariot said they want to be in eight more markets next year," Behr said.
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Fortunately, my balance was true, and I rode my fuckboy chariot with no problem.
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Some Chariot employees will be offered opportunities in Ford Mobility, a company spokesperson said.
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For example, Ford Smart Mobility acquired shuttle and ride-sharing startup Chariot last fall.
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Chariot is the only private transit provider that applied for and received a permit.
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That's because in Greek mythology, Dionysus rode on a chariot pulled by two tigers.
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My preference is the 1959 picture but all three have amazing chariot-race sequences.
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So it's no surprise then that Reed's new album, Chariot is close to magical.
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Photo: Amber Mahoney How did writing Chariot get you out of that existential crisis?
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Is what you're writing continuing off of Chariot or is it its own being?
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Ford's Chariot shared commuter shuttle service is expanding to its latest new market: Columbus, Ohio.
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Ford has agreed to acquire Chariot, an on-demand shuttle service based in San Francisco.
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And no, this robo-chariot, a modified all-electric Chevrolet Bolt, doesn't have pedals either.
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The biggest potential problem, though, is that Chariot for Women's premise might not be legal.
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The Olympic gold medalist stood on the Chariot for photos, but he didn't ride it.
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Going forward, we'd like to see Chariot become available to a larger population of commuters.
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The charioteer, Reason, tries his best to guide the chariot along the road of virtue.
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Chariot, a startup acquired by Ford last year, was running its shuttle vans throughout downtown.
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The chariot, carried by 50 people, was accompanied by marching bands and a military parade.
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In Manhattan, Chariot, a San Francisco-based shuttle service, began operating commuter vans last summer.
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Its ride service efforts, including the Chariot commuter van service, are still in early stages.
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Ford is expanding its recently acquired crowdsourced shuttle service called Chariot into New York City.
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Chariot, the micro-transit service owned by Ford, went out of business earlier this year.
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But only people with no sense of history call every passing chariot a historic event.
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It wasn't long before he graced the nearby town of Apatity with his war chariot.
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And when Reed pulled the Chariot, she knew she'd crawl out of the rabbit hole.
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At the moment, Chariot operates 100 Ford Transit shuttles along 28 routes in the Bay Area.
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Smug, satisfied, and awaiting my chariot, I come back to check the link a day later.
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Unlike its "partnership" with Bridj in Kansas City, Ford acquired rival startup Chariot in San Francisco.
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Ford has its Chariot service in some U.S. cities as another part of its mobility efforts.
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Currently, Chariot operates 100 Ford Transit shuttles in the San Francisco Bay Area along 28 routes.
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Starting soon, Ford is launching its on-demand shuttle bus service Chariot in New York City.
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Chariot first launched in San Francisco in 2014, and recently began operating in Austin and Seattle.
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Chariot, a Bay Area crowdsourced shuttle bus service, was purchased by Ford last year, for example.
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How could you set out a picnic while time's winged chariot was bearing down on you?
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Will this be the electric-powered chariot most people will take to work in the future?
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You know what you're getting into, and it's still pretty great, so listen to "Chariot" below.
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Through Stratim's vendor marketplace, for example, Ford can request gas fill-ups for its Chariot shuttles.
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Through STRATIM's vendor marketplace, for example, Ford can request gas fill-ups for its Chariot shuttles.
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Chariot has 625 total employees, including drivers; about 385 of those are in the Bay Area.
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As part of the program, Chariot cannot make stops in crosswalks, traffic lanes and Muni stops.
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A sculpture, "Chariot," by Alberto Giacometti, sold at a Sotheby's auction for $101 million in 2014.
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Rome protected its streets by limiting chariot traffic and put a daytime ban on commercial carts.
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And riders using Chariot and OurBus can track the progress of their vehicles on their phones.
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Chariot also hopes to scoop up some commuters frustrated with New York's often cramped public transit.
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As intermission ends, the band plays "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," signaling sadness and loss to come.
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In fact, Chariot was born out of an internalized conflict between philosophical curiosity and divine understanding.
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What are your plans for what's next or are you basking in the moment of Chariot?
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The latest edition, 'Asterix et la Transitalique' (Asterix and the Chariot Race), is set in ancient Italy.
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In recent years, Ford has also purchased commuter shuttle service Chariot, as well as Autonomic and TransLoc.
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Uber, maybe, or Lyft, or van services such as Ford-owned Chariot or New York-based Via.
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Chariot, which was acquired by Ford earlier this month, was offering its own version of shared transportation.
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Hindu devotees take part in the annual Ratha Jatra, or chariot procession, in Ahmedabad, India, July 4.
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In the ancient Olympics, horse competitions (chariot and riding) were among the most prestigious of them all.
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Chariot is registering with the city as a black car service, with an affiliated base in Brooklyn.
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"Why can't we solve our transit issues literally overnight with Chariot at zero cost to the taxpayer?"
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Last month, Ford announced it would end the Chariot project due to high costs and low returns.
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However, it's just as adept at being a caddish hooning machine as it is a gentleman's chariot.
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In February, Ali Vahabzadeh, the CEO and co-founder of ride-sharing startup Chariot left the company.
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How is it any different from those ride-sharing startups, specifically van services like Chariot or Via?
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Chariot CEO Ali Vahabzadeh told me in an interview that he believes this is "a pretty opportune time for Chariot to introduce its reliable and accessible services in New York," hinting at the frequency and severity of service disruptions we've seen in the city this summer so far.
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Driving the news: Ford's actions include buying the private bus startup Chariot and a scooter business called Spin.
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That is reflected in the print run for Asterix and the Chariot Race, with five million copies planned.
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The Dearborn, Michigan automaker is also experimenting with a service called Chariot that offers access to van rides.
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Chariot had been struggling for a while, especially in New York City, according to data viewed by Streetsblog.
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It's called Chariot for Women, it's based in Boston, and it's scheduled to debut nationwide on April 19.
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The local expression "chauffer le char" ("to drive the car") means "heat up the chariot" to the French.
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Granted, simply based upon its price tag, the new Bugatti Chiron will be the chariot of global glitterati.
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It already operates its Chariot ride-share vans in a handful of cities using its large Transit vans.
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"We just have this funny feeling that New Yorkers are going to embrace Chariot pretty quickly," he said.
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We decided on a chariot instead of horses that would need to move, and that was too complicated.
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The chariot of time is unceasing, and rolls its heavy wheels over all who step in its path.
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The construction of a new housing estate in Colchester exposed the only Roman chariot-racing stadium in Britain.
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Ford, has jumped head first into car sharing, its carpooling shuttle buses called Chariot, and bike-sharing programs.
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The vans already offer WiFi, Vahabzadeh told reporters, and Chariot plans to consider offering other perks for riders.
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The only sport that the Byzantines truly embraced was chariot racing, which continued through the late Middle Ages.
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However, operating Chariot "is not going to be a sustainable business moving forward," the company told the SF Examiner.
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It has some roots in Norse mythology, wherein the god Thor rode around in a chariot pulled by goats.
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As it exists now, Chariot only operates on 28 mostly fixed routes with close to 100 Ford Transit shuttles.
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Ford Smart Mobility, the company Ford founded to focus on mobility alternatives to vehicle ownership, acquired Chariot in September.
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Chariot for Women will only hire women drivers, and will only accept women or children under 13 as passengers.
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The silver chariot of the Chettiars, a title used by various castes from South India, seen here in Saigon.
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For Ford, the move will make Chariot the cornerstone of its shuttle and mobility programs in cities going forward.
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Chariot racing was all the rage in the Roman Empire, and later came medieval jousting and modern thoroughbred racing.
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The Detroit automaker said Chariot plans to expand internationally, moving into five more markets in the next 18 months.
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Judges are incompetent, defense attorneys morally bankrupt, and mankind is on a high-speed chariot headed directly towards hell.
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Chariot for Women donates 2 percent of every fare to charity, and the company does not use surge charging.
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They include last year's acquisition of SAIPS for self-driving tech and Chariot for its smart city transit strategy.
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Stephanie currently represents SoftTech as board member for Chariot, Educents and Fatherly and as board observer for numerous investments.
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Only seven other known ancient mosaic floors, she told the AP, portray a similar chariot race at the hippodrome.
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Chariot will end service on commuter routes in the U.K. on January 25, according to a company update Thursday.
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Chariot wouldn't provide many details about why the service was shutting down except to allude to failing ridership numbers.
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Ford is adding its largest market yet for Chariot, the crowd-sourced shuttle service that it acquired last September.
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"I think the public is going to use Chariot and micro-transit in different ways [in NYC]," he said.
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Do I get the gold chariot or do I float through the ceiling?" sings Jesse Lacey on "Jesus Christ.
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One depiction shows the royal couple riding a horse-drawn chariot, embracing as the rays of Aten shine overhead.
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I would be orphaned, left to be raised in the wild by the two stoner teens operating Apollo's Chariot.
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Tyre is home to one of the largest, well-preserved Roman hippodromes, racecourses used mostly for Roman chariot races.
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I lingered over the illustration of her descent into the yawning pit, Hades' arm securing her to the chariot.
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Now she's performing Chariot to audiences across the globe while on tour with Citizen Cope, which ends April 11.
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Noisey: It's fascinating how divination and the Tarot influenced Chariot and how you can hear it in your album.
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Ford owns Chariot, a "crowdsourced" shuttle service, and will have 13 models of electric car on the road by 2020.
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The Seiko Chariot will go on sale starting March 10th, and perhaps a few will show up on Ebay thereafter.
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Chariot also introduced advance ride booking, so it's safe to say this is a priority for customers in this market.
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Chariot, the commuter shuttle service that had to halt rides in San Francisco last week, is resuming operations this afternoon.
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Chariot operated 100 Ford Transit shuttles in the San Francisco Bay Area along 28 routes as of September last year.
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But Chariot has Ford (market cap $45 billion), which could give it a leg up over other ride-sharing services.
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An image of Apollo riding his chariot across the sun inspired him, because it matched the ambition of the program.
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Ford said in a statement that Chariot is expected to expand into five additional markets within the next 18 months.
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Chariot for Women pays for the CORI check and will add fingerprinting for its drivers as soon as it's possible.
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That hardly mattered because Foot was crushed under the wheels of Margaret Thatcher's chariot in the general election of 1983.
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According to the poet Pindar, the king of Pisa bribed Hermes' son Myrtilus to tamper with his opponent's chariot wheels.
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"Mothership Connection," the title track of their intergalactic masterwork, uses the negro spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as a refrain.
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Chariot will be available in four more cities by the end of 2017, although these have yet to be announced.
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To be clear, the fixed pickup spots for Chariot Direct are the same as the ones in the standard service.
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There's the Jerry Maguire quitting scene, Pulp Fiction's restaurant scene, and Ben-Hur's chariot race, just to name a few.
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" In the 1880s and '90s, said Rebecca Robertson, the armory's president, "they had chariot races, they gave each other trophies.
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He once turned up for a Tour stage in a chariot wearing vaguely Roman-styled cycling clothes underneath a toga.
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The "magic chariot," as a film narrator once called it, had a penny fare and traveled a mere 100 yards.
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A similar Iron Age chariot and two horse skeletons were uncovered last year at a different grave site, also at Pocklington.
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That evening I headed for the MGM Grand station, paid the $5 ticket fare, and waited for my chariot to arrive.
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It has also see some of its investments go belly-up, like its microtransit service Chariot which shuttered earlier this year.
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Many of his statues stand with the stiff formality of an Egyptian pharaoh; "Chariot" (1950) echoes figures unearthed from Etruscan tombs.
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After several visits by the pup to try out prototypes, the young engineers presented "Claire's Chariot" to her on Friday, Syracuse.
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If you believe there is an apocalypse a-brewin', you're going to want Mercedes' G550 4x43² as your chariot of choice.
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As soon as fifty riders express interest in an area, more Chariot shuttles will be added, operating twice daily — during a.m.
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Oysters equal luxury, after all, and what's more luxurious than slurping some while your subterranean chariot whisks you across the city?
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That vacation also included a gelato-making lesson in a fifth-generation gelateria and a citywide horse-and-chariot scavenger hunt.
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The structure, which was probably used for public meetings, still has Greek graffiti on the seats praising winners of chariot races.
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I thought back to Michael's homecoming in 2006, to Bree cruising by in her chariot, coming for to carry Michael home.
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The royal chariot with Rex, the King of the Carnival, starts the Mardi Gras procession in downtown New Orleans, in 1906.
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It has also see some of its investments go belly-up, like its microtransit service Chariot, which shuttered earlier this year.
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Next came a stage adaptation, which ran on Broadway and used real horses trotting on treadmills to stage the chariot scene.
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Ali Vahabzadeh, the CEO and co-founder of ride-sharing startup Chariot, which Ford acquired in September 2016, has left the company.
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And, of course, who can forget the advent of the Lyft shuttle, Uber Express Pool, and Chariot — inventors of the bus. pic.twitter.
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The second gravesite contains the remains of an older individual who was buried along with his chariot and a pair of horses.
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TechCrunch recently discovered the departure of CEO and co-founder of Chariot, Ali Vahabzadeh, which was acquired by Ford in September 2016.
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You can't help but admire how well the truck holds up with its wheels aflame, like a 21st-century chariot of fire.
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Japanese watch maker Seiko is teaming up with Tokyo-based retailer Nano Universe to sell a limited run of Chariot series watches.
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Soaring above a forest on a smoke detector "sky chariot," a dog in wind goggles yells about the risks of portable generators.
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That would have been unthinkable, like Ben-Hur without the chariot race or The Phantom of the Opera without the falling chandelier.
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For Chariot, what being part of Ford Smart Mobility is the ability to ramp up quickly and increase the pace of expansion.
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Chariot Direct is restricted to four drop-offs per trip, which the service determines based on the specific end points riders input.
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Her statue, complete with rearing horses and a chariot armed with scythes on its hubcaps, seems to capture the spirit of Brexit.
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Even though Chariot is in full compliance with all regulations, we have received an order from a regulator to temporarily suspend service.
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Instead, Chariot must load and unload passengers in legal curb spaces, which includes white passenger loading zones and yellow commercial loading zones.
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Her black Escalade shuttles her between appearances like a chariot, and woe to those who ride alongside and disrupt her delicate equilibrium.
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"Chariot," made by Swedish sculptor Alberto Giacometti, is regarded as a transformative piece of art from the 20th century, according to Sotheby's.
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"With Ford, we can scale operations really, really quickly," Chariot CEO Ali Vahabzadeh told reporters at an event in Manhattan on Thursday.
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I bike my children around our neighborhood in the Thule Chariot Lite 2, which is 28 pounds, but light for its size.
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At the end, a model rode a lacy, feather-covered bicycle chariot off into the sunset, or at least down the runway.
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The prequel podrace is at one point a shot by shot remake of the chariot racing scene from Charlton Heston's Ben Hur.
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Between 2017–2022, semi-autonomous vehicles will slowly trickle into our cities through services like Uber, Lyft, and private microtransit like Ford's Chariot.
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So it was with a mixture of joy and despair that San Franciscans greeted the news that Chariot had been suspended in California.
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Other people point to the Norse legend of Freya, the goddess of love and fertility, whose chariot was pulled by two black cats.
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According to tradition, the latest Asterix features a new villain, Coronavirus, a mysterious, masked chariot racer who will stop at nothing to win.
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"Chariot will offer Seattle residents an additional option for commuting to work," John Kwant, vice president of Ford's city project, writes on Medium.
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Other investors have had healthy exits with 7th Generation, FLS Energy, Nest Labs, SolarBridge, 2U, Chariot, SKS Microfinance, Ujjivan Financial Services and more.
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Trains and buses ferried in protesters from around Italy to take part in the event, staged in Ancient Rome's famed chariot racing stadium.
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There it is transferred to the "Royal Chariot of Great Victory" (pictured), which has been used for cremations of Thai kings since 33.
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He believed history was a chariot thundering to a predetermined end and that the best that the charioteers can do is hang on.
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The New York students put their heads together to build what they're calling a "chariot," a custom wheelchair that helps a 2.8 lb.
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Ford said it would expand its Chariot microtransit service to more cities this year, beyond the five cities in which it presently operates.
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Ford says toodle-oo to Chariot, its app-based shuttle service, which it acquired just two years ago for more than $60 million.
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Chariot is also in early talks with the city of San Francisco to officially supplement public mass transit with Chariot's flexible mass transit.
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African-Americans repurposed these materials because they had symbolic value as well in the form of Ezekiel's blazing chariot wheel, Dr. Pruitt said.
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Chariot launched at Y Combinator and had only raised around $3 million before Ford acquired it, reportedly for $65 million plus earn-outs.
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At the time, Chariot said it was in talks with San Francisco to officially supplement public mass transit with Chariot's flexible mass transit.
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Royal palanquins and a golden chariot have been prepared for the five-day cremation ceremony, which weaves together 93-year-old spiritual traditions.
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It features two iconic action set pieces—an ancient naval battle and a grueling, deadly chariot race, both of which hold up today.
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The poor boy, our narrator, is endlessly rollin' and ridin', straddling that Greyhound, smoking into New Orleans, swinging low chariot, coming down easy.
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For instance, Chariot, which was acquired by Ford, shut down its operations in San Francisco, New York and the U.K. in early 2019.
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His project, which he's hoping to expand across Scotland, involves taking elderly residents out for cycle rides on a kind of custom chariot.
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Eventually, the company acquired on-demand shuttle service Chariot in September 2016 and then bought a majority stake in self-driving startup Argo.
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In October, Chariot had to halt service for a period in San Francisco after failing to pass a series of California Highway Patrol inspections.
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It's the chariot inspired by military muscle, exactly the vehicle you need when you're in a mood to conquer the land beyond the asphalt.
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The boxy Mercedes-Benz G-Class — known around the world as the G-Wagen — is the chariot of choice for well-heeled SUV buyers.
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Dan Grossman, CEO of Chariot, said in a statement: In today's mobility landscape, the wants and needs of customers and cities are changing rapidly.
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Harassment complaints are no picnic for Uber, of course, but even one incident could easily be a public relations disaster for Chariot for Women.
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Chariot, the on-demand shuttle startup owned by Ford, is bringing its app-based, crowdsourced transit service to the traffic-choked streets of Seattle.
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It might if you've been following the progress of Chariot, the Ford-acquired startup that offers commuter shuttles on-demand as a dedicated service.
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But the challenges are significant, as Ford Motor learned before the recent announcement that it was killing off its own ride-sharing service, Chariot.
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Chariot, which costs about $4 per trip, has 6,000 monthly riders and does about 4,000 rides a day across its 13 original commuter routes.
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In addition to common mobility services today, Uber and Lyft might soon be joined in force by microtransit operators, like Ford's Chariot shuttle service.
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The paint design and detailing on the vehicles — including the classic "Hell's Chariot" and "Grease Lightning" replicas — were done by the musical's art department.
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Chariot began operations in San Francisco, where the former startup ran commuter routes of its branded transit vans, and expanded to Austin after that.
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While Chariot cannot currently operate in San Francisco, it's still up-and-running in New York City, where it launched its services in July.
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In 2016, the automaker acquired on-demand shuttle service Chariot for far below $1 billion and invested in Velodyne, a maker of Lidar technology.
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These demolitions have been concentrated in the Roman Circus, once a stadium for chariot races, now part of the poor neighborhood of Mohamed Ali.
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The final chariot race borrows the same basic elements, but adds nothing except an occasional GoPro shot to suggest an on-the-ground perspective.
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Nor were her characters deaf to the rumble of time's winged chariot: Anne Elliot's vain father, Sir Walter, entertains a theatrical horror of aging.
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Arunkumar H.G.'s "Wheel of Tradition and Faith" repurposes two massive wooden chariot wheels employed in the annual Ashokasthami Rath festival of Lingaraj Temple.
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The firm was the first investor in Chariot, the San Francisco-based private bus service that was acquired last week by Ford for undisclosed terms.
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Last year, Ford shut down its recently acquired shuttle service, Chariot, and General Motors, Daimler, and BMW wound down their US-based car-sharing services.
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Last October, Independent oil and Gas Company, Chariot Oil and Gas, became the latest company which failed in its bid to find oil offshore Namibia.
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Our chariot for the 6 hours and 40-minute flight to Los Angeles would be a Boeing 737-800, one of Alaska's workhorses and flagships.
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"If you talk to most wheelchair users, they're going to tell you that a wheelchair to them is a chariot of independence," Carter-Long said.
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Stratim powers fleet management for more than 50 companies, including BMW (DriveNow), General Motors (Maven), Ford (Chariot) and Toyota, to power their respective mobility services.
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That's just a coincidence, the company tells me, but it still uses only 15-seater Ford Transit vans with a tell-tale Chariot paint job.
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Chariot may have found an audience in tech-friendly cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin, but New York City is a different beast altogether.
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In addition, Ford made several big acquisitions and investments, like artificial intelligence startup Argo (for a whopping $1 billion) and, to a lesser degree, Chariot.
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Unlike the driver-owned vehicles that comprise Uber, Lyft, or Via, Chariot owns and maintains its own fleet, as well as employs its own drivers.
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During the past year, Ford has invested in Civil Maps, Velodyne, and autonomous AI startup Argo – plus it acquired Chariot, and algorithmic platform startup SAIPS.
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He sprained an ankle celebrating the Indians' American League Championship Series victory, and rode a pseudo-chariot through the dugout after a big home run.
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But if you want to give that turkey the afterlife it deserves, a bowl of bacon-studded soup is a mighty fine chariot to heaven.
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Last week, Ford said it had acquired Chariot, a San Francisco-based startup that provides a local on-demand shuttle service with dynamic routing capability.
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Chariot was part of a slew of acquisitions and investments made by Ford since the automaker announced a broad transportation and mobility plan in 2015.
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Earlier this week, officials approved the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency proposed rules that would prevent Chariot from running its shuttles along public transit routes.
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But I would, perhaps, make an exception to any offers of marriage that ride in on the chariot of a hundredweight plate of sushi. Perhaps.
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Chariot, a start-up venture that was acquired in 10.753 by Ford Smart Mobility, offers four shuttle routes in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
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"We're bringing people back to mass transit," said Ali Vahabzadeh, the chief executive of Chariot, which also operates shuttles in Austin, Seattle and San Francisco.
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Ford is shutting down its Chariot shuttle service Hailing from Portugal, Albino arrived in Mexico City as a hire for the Rocket Internet startup Linio.
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The two men saw the initial success of Chariot as it launched from Y Combinator, but were also tracking companies like the Indian startup Shuttl.
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" A few months later, a writer for the Independent published an essay titled "Why it's time for England to stop singing 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
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Chariot, which was acquired by Ford in September 2016, now operates in five cities in total, including San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Austin and now Columbus.
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"In the Bible we have a prophet by the name of Ezekiel, and he describes how he saw a 'chariot of the gods,'" von Däniken explained.
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"We thank Ali for his passion and dedication to building Chariot into the growing mobility business it is today," the company told TechCrunch in a statement.
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Rather than setting itself apart as an events-driven option for weekend getaways or longer trips, Chariot pitched itself as an alternative to the daily commute.
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Thanks again for being a loyal Chariot rider and helping us become the best way to commute in SF. See you on the road this afternoon!
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The U.S.-based automaker launched Chariot in San Francisco in 2014, but has since expanded it to Austin, Seattle and New York – its biggest test yet.
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It's certainly why automakers like General Motors and even Ford have decided to partner with or acquire companies with an existing network like Lyft and Chariot.
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He said that Chariot is working on "a couple of pilot projects" exploring ways to include more customers who lack credit cards, bank accounts, and smartphones.
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Chariot founder and CEO Ali Vahabzadeh, as well as the rest of the company's leadership, will move over to Ford to work on the build-out.
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However, one dog skeleton was found not under a chariot but to the side, its front paws outstretched, hind legs braced, body bent double with effort.
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He seems to have had no animating idea other than a movie with a clunky CGI chariot race, which might as well be called Ben-Hur.
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Once a route is set up, users check the app to see when a Chariot shuttle will next be in the area and reserve a seat.
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The chariot scene alone took three months to film, and so gruelling was the shooting schedule that a doctor was hired to administer Vitamin B injections.
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Overall, Chariot operates 108 daily routes across all of its markets, the company says, which is the first time it's revealed the full scope of its operation.
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Chariot first launched in San Francisco in 2014 as part of a spate of bus startups that used algorithms to develop transit routes based on user demand.
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But it's just not clear whether passenger transit services might fit that bill, and Chariot for Women would probably have to face a lawsuit to find out.
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This time, McEntire sent her audience off on a spiritual high with a rousing, redemptive "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," turning the Nashville nightclub into a tent revival.
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Salvini did not say what other parties had signed up to the initiative, which the League hopes to hold in Rome's ancient chariot-racing stadium Circus Maximus.
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Ford Motor announced on Friday it is acquiring shuttle service Chariot as the auto giant seeks to cater to customers who may not even own a car.
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Chariot for Women also requires that all drivers pass Massachusetts' Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check, the same deep background check used in daycare centers and schools.
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He was replaced in the interim by Dan Grossman, who leads Microtransit for Ford Smart Mobility, while the company looked for a permanent person to lead Chariot.
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Chariot, the commuter shuttle bus network that Ford Smart Mobility acquired in 2016, has halted its services in San Francisco, the San Francisco Business Times first reported.
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Back in October, Chariot was forced to temporarily halt rides in San Francisco after the company failed to pass an inspection by the California Public Utilities Commission.
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The demon queen is considered a sacred angel of prostitution and on the Sabbath she's known to park her chariot and dance on the roofs of Jews.
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Chariot sees itself as a bridge between the first and last mile of travel for riders whose subway or ferry stop might be just out of reach.
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When Joan Baez gets up to sing, she finishes her set with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," as stunning a rendition as you'd ever hear inside church walls.
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The first feature's $21959 million budget made it the most expensive silent film ever produced, and its climactic chariot race set a new standard for action scenes.
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She ended the concert with the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," greeting mortality with faith and returning to the a cappella purity that brought her 1960s fame.
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Or occasionally, an icon of war, justice or virtue: Boadicea in her chariot in London, the Statue of Liberty in New York, "The Motherland Calls" in Volgograd.
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The app will give them pickup and drop-off locations, along routes Chariot has designed, and times when the next shuttle will be headed toward their stop.
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Though the filming of the chariot race hadn't yet begun, the lot at Cinecittà was filled with horses, which had been trucked in from all over Europe.
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Ford, which operates a docked bike-sharing system in San Francisco and acquired the shuttle service Chariot, is also exploring the opportunities around offering multiple transportation solutions.
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Chariot, the commuter bus service Ford acquired in 2016 for a reported $65 million, is shutting down over the next month, the automaker announced in a blog post.
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Other recent deals, including Ford's purchase of commuter transit provider Chariot, and PSA Group's acquisition of online auto repair platform Autobutler, were smaller deals involving early-stage companies.
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Chariot, the Ford-owned van commuter service that crowdsources its routes from passengers, is the subject of some controversy in San Francisco, the city where it was born.
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Chariot CEO Ali Vhabzadeh has previously told me that his company planned to expand aggressively in 2017, but now we know the specific scope of those expansion plans.
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As those changes continue, it has become clear that the mobility services delivered by Chariot over the past five years will not be a sustainable solution going forward.
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Ford said it plans to expand its Chariot van service this year to more cities, and shift Chariot's focus to collaborating with businesses to provide rides to employees.
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"We're going to be super aggressive in expanding to multiple markets over the next year," said Chariot CEO and co-founder Ali Vahabzadeh in an interview with TechCrunch.
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After trailing in fourth place early in the race, the Wild Mustangs team gained speed in the final corner to win the annual world mountain bike chariot race.
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In 21993, Lal Krishna Advani, then the president of the B.J.P., rode through India on a truck designed like a chariot to whip up support for Rama's temple.
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The incident happened in March 93 when Fabio took part in the inaugural ride of Apollo's Chariot, a then-new roller coaster at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Five years on, and the winter 2015 Y Combinator cohort is also faring well, with GitLab, worth $2.75 billion, leading the pack that includes Razorpay, Atomwise, and Chariot.
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"Radial Courses" is a kind of pedestrian variation on the "Ben Hur" chariot race, with four men speeding around the same circuit of the stage, overtaking one another.
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DeGraw performed a couple of his big hits -- "Chariot" and "I Don't Want To Be" -- to give attendees their money's worth ... tickets weren't cheap at $2,500, after all.
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In that reading, the Death card, a symbol for an end, represented Reed's heavy-hearted present; the Chariot card, a symbol for triumph, represented her wide-open future.
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We think this elegant scarf would look right at home wrapped around Harry's neck, while Kendall would look super cute long-boarding beside him on her chariot of cheese.
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Ford first revealed its intent to back the growth of the Bay Area bike sharing operation last September, when it also announced its acquisition of commute-sharing startup Chariot.
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Earlier this spring, Safeher (the ride-hailing service formerly known as Chariot for Women) established itself in the Boston area as a safer service for women drivers and passengers.
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Rookie of the Year candidate Patrik Laine (team-best 21 goals) has missed three straight games with a concussion and defenseman Ben Chariot (illness) also was held out Friday.
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Remember that Chariot was acquired by Ford Smart Mobility earlier this year – I asked Vahabzadeh how this fits in with the carmaker's larger plans around the future of transportation.
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In the Iliad, Achilles, after killing Hector, attaches that noble man's body to the back of his chariot and drags it through the dirt in front of Troy's walls.
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Within a matter of months the company announced it was pouring money into companies like lidar manufacturer Velodyne, mapping startup Civil Maps and acquiring on-demand shuttle service Chariot.
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Chariot will operate daily shuttles for these employees starting on January 22, and they'll provide both morning and evening commute options using Wi-Fi equipped, 14-seat Ford Transit vans.
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In addition to its sponsorship of the Ford GoBike service, Ford has acquired other transportation companies in recent years, including scooter rental startup Spin and private shuttle bus provider Chariot.
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Chariot currently operates in its home city of San Francisco, and in Austin, TX, with a pilot project launched late last year in Lake Tahoe to supplement ski resort transportation.
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He was buried in his chariot, along with two adult horses still attached—as if to suggest these beasts of burden would carry on their duties in the next world.
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One of the gadgets is called "SwagSurf," and it's exactly what it sounds like: a chariot that will (supposedly) carry you across bodies of water like a shitty millennial Jesus.
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Chariot, which has been operating in San Francisco since 2014, is part of a recent trend of bus startups that use algorithms to develop transit routes based on user demand.
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Hackett said he hopes Chariot can fill in the gaps in cities' transit maps, as well as compete with increasingly popular (and cheap) carpooling services like UberPool and Lyft Line.
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Cruise control, climate control and steering wheel audio control all goes through plastic buttons; though satisfyingly weighted, they're still dull, gray and out of place in a six-figure chariot.
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When TechCrunch reached out to Chariot for a comment, a spokesperson directed me to the email they sent to customers: We are temporarily pausing our commuter service beginning this afternoon.
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There is a vehicle new to the streets however: Chariot, a Tiffany-box-blue van-hailing service that arrived in New York last month from San Francisco and Austin, Tex.
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Chariot had failed three routine inspections by the California Highway Patrol, as officials found not all of its drivers had the right licenses to operate the company's 14-person passenger vans.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Asterix, the indomitable pint-sized Gaul forever outfoxing the Romans, returns for his 37th comic adventure on Thursday, this time battling his way across Italy in a chariot race.
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In San Francisco, the private, Ford-owned van service Chariot has gotten into scrapes with local transit authorities because drivers idle in bus stops and in the middle of the street.
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Seated on an ornate chariot topped by cupid and drawn by two elephants, he isaccompanied by howling dogs and dancing bears which, like him, go into action when the hour strikes.
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As Persephone's scared, cowering companion looks on, Hades, a powerful senior Olympian god whose domain is the underworld, violently grabs Persephone by her breast and whisks her away in his chariot.
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Ford Smart Mobility, the company founded by Ford Motor Company to help provide alternate means of transportation, just made its first acquisition: Chariot, the San Francisco-based commuter ride-sharing startup.
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You may think that upon touching down on Earth in your trusty Soyuz chariot, the danger has passed and you have bested the challenging environment of low Earth Orbit, emerging triumphant.Wrong.
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Los Angeles (CNN)For those unfamiliar with "Ben-Hur" -- or who only remember that it involves a chariot race and Jesus -- a new scaled-down movie version might be deemed harmless.
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Over the last year or so, Stratim has been conducting pilot tests with 803 companies, including BMW (DriveNow), General Motors (Maven), Ford (Chariot) and Toyota, to power their respective mobility services.
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There were men noted for their strength, like Polydamus of Skotoussa, who, according to Nigel Crowther, was so tremendously strong that he could stop a moving chariot by grabbing the wheel.
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If you ask most people around the world their true desires, their answers will be the same: health, happiness, and to ride around in a chariot pulled by thousands of bees.
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Riders can check routes in the Chariot app, and even propose their own new routes that contribute to the company's crowdsourcing efforts in determining how best to serve actual user needs.
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As part of a condition of the permit, Chariot must identify safe and legal alternatives for the remaining nine percent of the company's roughly 204 locations by the end of August.
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Beth Fitzgerald, 61, a legal secretary who lives on 18th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, regularly commutes by Chariot to and from her office on 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue.
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"Emilia thanked the world for the golden age it&aposs in, and also her bathtub for being a "chariot of discovery" because "there is no better salad than a bath salad.
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Ford has intimate knowledge of the vans it provides Chariot, so it offers the benefits of vertical integration, said Ford City Solutions group director Jessica Robinson, in an interview with CNBC.
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Sensing "time's winged chariot hurrying near," as the poet had it, President Obama is using every hour left in his presidency to ensure that Donald Trump will not erase it all.
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" In case there was any doubt to whom she was referring, Ms. Baez ended her rendition of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" with the line "carry me — you, us, even Donald — home.
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Chariot offers on-demand ridesharing via Ford Transit shuttles, looking to supplement public transit bus routes and local trains with commuter routes that aren't well served by either of those existing solutions.
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Then-CEO Mark Fields said Ford would increasingly address the transportation needs of customers in a variety of ways, and that Chariot was a key component of putting that strategy into practice.
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At the conference, standing next to Bolt the man was the company's newly unveiled "Chariot," a scooter model large enough to store a rider's bags and comes complete with two cup holders.
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It's possible they are good-willed guys, offering you the last seat in their chariot of awesome out of the kindness of their hearts, but this is not something you should assume.
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The sky-high Giuseppe Zanotti heels were still in his possession, which meant that the designer shoes had to be ferried in their very own Uber chariot from Hollywood to the Valley.
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The final 22 laps featured an amazing display of give-no-quarter side-by-side racing; imagine the chariot race in "Ben Hur" with 800 horses instead of four under each hood.
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This is the case with his interest in gluten-free bread, as evidenced by two dense loaves that ride around on a wooden chariot with at least a dozen other proprietary breads.
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Chariot, the commuter shuttle provider owned by Ford, has received a private transit program permit to operate more safely and, ideally, have less of an impact on public transit in San Francisco.
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When Aradhana had completed 68 days of fasting, she was dressed in bridal finery and paraded in a chariot before a crowd of 600, including a member of Parliament from the area.
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Co-founded by Joao Matos Albino and Renato Picard, Urbvan is taking the reins from startups like the now-defunct Chariot and tailoring the business for the needs of emerging-market ecosystems.
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Chariot will be able to operate its pre-bookable only services in Britain's capital city for a year on three routes and nine months on a fourth route on a trial basis.
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In that role, he helped oversee Ford's acquisition of San Francisco ride-sharing company Chariot and its $1 billion investment in Argo AI, a self-driving startup focused on robotics and artificial intelligence.
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There's evidence that Roman emperors would bet on chariot races, and their intentions were no different from what your casual better goes for today: money and the thrill of feeling like a prophet.
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My bet is that it's Ford, given its push into alternative forms of transportation with its new bike-sharing program in the San Francisco Bay Area and its acquisition of shuttle startup Chariot.
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Other goofs included a visible gas cylinder powering a chariot during a battle reenactment in the Colosseum, and another crew member in jeans who briefly pops up in an early post-fight scene.
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As for the driving, I enjoyed the Mustang as a sort of tool-around-slowly ride, a weekend chariot that can supply a 0-60 mph sprint in about 6 seconds if needed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archaeologists with Cyprus's Department of Antiquities recently came across a rare, sweeping mosaic floor that depicts the ancient sport of chariot racing held in a Roman hippodrome.
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Chariot will send a text to a rider who books in advance between 10 and 15 minutes before they need to be at their pickup spot, with the exact time of the pickup.
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Hundreds of thousands of black-clad mourners lined the streets of Bangkok to honor him and catch a glimpse of the royal chariot transporting his funerary urn to a 164-foot-high pyre.
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Rodda, who also goes under the alias Zheng3, designed the giant microorganism as part of his "Faire Play" series, which has previously seen him make Barbie 3D-printed armour and a Roman chariot.
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"In the post-ridesharing-and-microtranist-and-Amazon-eating-the-world world, my curbside is in chaos now," says Ali Vahabzadeh, the CEO of the commuter van service Chariot, which Ford acquired in 2016.
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According to the Examiner, Chariot employed around 385 people in San Francisco, and about 625 employees throughout the US. The company has operations in Austin, Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles, among other cities.
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Chariot for Women, though, bases its entire business model on helping women stay safer in a way that might actually work (as opposed to well-intentioned but ridiculous ideas like rape-prevention nail polish).
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They forgot about basic social justice: while blue-collar workers were crushed under history's progressive chariot, bankers were saved from the consequences of a crisis that had been created by their greed and incompetence.
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It's not a new idea — Via, an app-based communal bus service, has been operating in the city since 2015 — but Chariot has high hopes that its approach to ride-sharing will catch on.
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Celebrations began Thursday with a gun salute and a reception at the Sultan's grand palace, ending with a procession led by a golden chariot carrying the Sultan and his wife through Bandar Seri Begawan.
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The decision to add an advance booking option was made because Chariot found that a lot of its users were using the service in predictable patterns, with regular frequency and along the same routes.
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Months later, when Arsenal visited Stoke City — for a game Stoke would go on to win — the home fans sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" again and again, in a sort of gleeful conceptual taunt.
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While the automaker has kept busy with both investments in companies like Velodyne and mapping startup Civil Maps, the Chariot purchase will be Ford's Smart Mobility subsidiary's first acquisition since it was formed in March.
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This will most likely take place in urban centers first, where Ford will have done detailed mapping and route data gathering to prepare for launch, and Chariot is likely a big part of those plans.
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At this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Ford unveiled its latest pre-collision assist-equipped F-150 truck, along with an eight-city expansion of its newly acquired ride-sharing service, Chariot.
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The GoBike program launches just as it's also expanding its Chariot shared commuter bus service, which is debuting in Seattle after beginning as a startup in SF prior to Ford acquiring the company last year.
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Volkwagen's Moia is another recent example of an effort by a major carmaker to build out its mobility services portfolio, and Ford recently acquired on-demand carpooling startup Chariot through its own Mobility Solutions subsidiary.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Ben-Hur", the 1959 movie epic that won 11 Oscars, has received a Hollywood revamp — but its makers say the famed chariot race still relies on humans and horses, not special effects.
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Highlight "Chariot" gets assists from his local drill forebear Lil Durk, as well as national stars like Meek Mill and Young Thug, but it's Calboy who shines throughout the album's densely packed 31-minute runtime.
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In terms of the operation, Chariot is a great example of, 'Okay, they've expanded into BK.' I've actually tried to plug in my address here in Bushwick, but they haven't quite expanded this far yet.
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It wasn't until an intuit chat with an intuitive reader and healer, though, that Reed listened to the universe and headed to Brooklyn, where she now lives, and recorded Chariot over the next two years.
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Others, including Ford's Chariot, are exploring first- and last-mile transit as a business opportunity, and it's likely to attract the interest of even more startups, automakers and other transportation companies in the years to come.
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And the Chariot model actually would fit in very nicely with Ford's self-driving car plans, which include aiming to put a network of multi-passenger vehicles on the road to provide on-demand transit alternatives.
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Technically we were about 12 feet apart, but in the virtual space, we were right next to each other for the chariot ride and then when we moved toward the palace, the virtual palace in Atlantis.
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When Chariot launched in 2014, it joined a wave of Uber-inspired "microtransit" tech companies hoping to disrupt transportation services by providing faster, more efficient options for riders sick of—and underserved by—traditional public transit.
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STRATIM, formerly known as on-demand valet and car services startup ZIRX, powers fleet management for more than 50 companies, including BMW (DriveNow), General Motors (Maven), Ford (Chariot) and Toyota, to power their respective mobility services.
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There is Wingz, which specializes in airport rides; Lift Hero, which provides rides to older consumers; and Chariot for Women, set to start this month in Boston, aiming to serve women or children under age 2100.
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But for the most part, Handel's effects — as with Armida's entrance "in the air, singing seated in a chariot pulled by two dragons spouting flames and fire from their mouths" — hardly lend themselves to half measures.
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Chariot must ensure new routes complement, rather than replicate, pre-existing Muni routes, as well as provide San Francisco with GPS and ridership data in order to enable the city to better understand the company's impact.
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The new $28 million Series A brings its total funding up to $38 million, courtesy of Susquehanna International Group, Morningside Group, SMiT, Palm Commerce Holdings Co. Ltd, Chariot Gold Limited, SV Tech Ventures and Innolinks Ventures.
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Josephine Wright, a professor of music and black studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio, said the lyrics of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" allude to feelings of despair and a desire for release from suffering.
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