The pilot included cabs, buses, auto rickshaws and e-rickshaws, and charging infrastructure.
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Others make do with an array of lesser choices: bicycles, scooters, bicycle rickshaws, motorized rickshaws, buses so crowded that passengers hang out the door.
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Like other electric vehicles, the e-rickshaws are battery-powered and are purported to produce zero emissions, a major change from the smoke-wielding auto-rickshaws omnipresent in South Asia.
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Before too long, I noticed several cycle rickshaws following me.
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Cars blared their horns at rickshaws drifting into their path.
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Cars blare their horns at rickshaws drifting into their path.
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In July the city banned rickshaws on three main roads.
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We piled back into the metro and then into rickshaws.
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Men who pedal rickshaws, street vendors, construction workers, traffic cops.
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We're rolling out our new fleet of electric delivery rickshaws.
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But now stuck in traffic and rickshaws weaving past my car!
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Other companies are also offering electric rickshaws, including Delhi-based Saarthi.
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Three-wheel rickshaws are a popular way of making quick trips in many cities and can be hailed through Ola's app; the company's electric vehicle trial program in Nagpur, which started in May 2017, already includes rickshaws.
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Known as Rixi, the Lahore-based service hails rickshaws instead of cars.
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Eight taxis and six auto rickshaws were partly visible in the wreckage.
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Cycle rickshaws are a popular form of transport in many Indian cities.
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And, of course, there were the iconic Dhaka passenger vehicles, bicycle rickshaws.
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Dhakaites call auto-rickshaws "CNGs," because they run on compressed natural gas.
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One thing that everyone agrees on is that Dhaka's rickshaws look great.
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Scrutinize the cityscapes painted on rickshaws and you will note an irony.
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On Monday, the ride-hailing company, which operates in over 110 cities throughout India (and now, Australia), announced a commitment to place 10,000 three-wheeled e-rickshaws and electric auto-rickshaws in its service over the next 12 months.
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In the capital, Dhaka, rickshaws can be seen creaking down almost every street.
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Dhaka's administrators, however, would like to consign its rickshaws to the past, too.
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Arguing about rickshaws is as big a pastime in Dhaka as riding them.
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Mobile exhibitions on rickshaws will bring the festival to remote areas of Dhaka.
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A street scene with a lane of rickshaws in Shanghai, circa May 19493.
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Auto rickshaws are also still allowed, and becoming the alternative transport choice for many.
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I've taken rickshaws at 343 AM and dozed off, I've always come home safe.
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Other existing ride-hailing apps in Lahore even offer rickshaws as a vehicle option.
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My Uber is already driving 2x as fast as the rickshaws on the road!
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In a promotional video, he hopped into one of the rickshaws for a spin.
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Auto-rickshaws are a ubiquitous and low-cost transport option across many cities in India.
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Its other EV programs include a pledge to add 10,000 rickshaws for use in cities.
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Users can hail rickshaws and motorbikes, for example, which are popular in large Indian cities.
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Bicycle rickshaws are the quaintest and most ubiquitous of all the vehicles on Dhaka's streets.
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The city rose from the sands, crammed with people, cars, market stalls and auto-rickshaws.
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So Ola offers auto rickshaws rides, hourly rates on its taxi service plus inter-city cabs.
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For more than 15 years most buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws have run on natural gas.
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Then there are Dhaka's commuters, who rely on rickshaws more than any other form of transport.
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"Azadi!" or freedom, the crowd chanted as drivers leaned out of their rickshaws, straining to hear.
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The rickshaws cost about $3,000 each, and more if you add tracking and anti-theft systems.
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Mumbai's middle classes have been forced back onto trains, buses and rickshaws to get around, complaining vociferously.
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Soon, other members of the transgender rights movement joined her, arriving in rickshaws in groups of five.
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They don't ride about in rickshaws, DJ in fancy dress, or release their own bottles of whiskey.
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London (CNN Business)In India, electric rickshaws are increasingly seen as a way to cut air pollution.
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"No one ever thought to prepare for rickshaws and pavement hawkers, the fringe people," said Mr. Wattas.
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The villagers took the injured to nearby clinics and pharmacies in taxis and rickshaws and on motorbikes.
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Auto rickshaws, commonly known as tuk-tuks, are a fixture on the roads of Thailand's capital Bangkok.
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Bezos did not mention in either the video or the caption how many rickshaws would be deployed.
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"The first few rickshaws we bought were expensive but now we're looking at cheaper models," she said.
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A wall of fire surged across the street, engulfing bicycles, rickshaws, cars, people, everything in its path.
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Uber already allows riders in India to book the ubiquitous three-wheeled vehicles dubbed "auto-rickshaws" or "autos".
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Ola also offers cheap rickshaws on its platform and has bigger access at the moment to smaller cities.
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The sides of auto rickshaws are open to the elements, making drivers vulnerable to the effects of smog.
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Some contend that rickshaws are the vehicles best-suited to traffic-choked roads, and the most environmentally friendly.
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Three auto-rickshaws and two motorcycles were burned before the mob ransacked several homes belonging to local Muslims.
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"No public transportation, including operation of private buses, taxis, autorickshaws, and e-rickshaws shall be permitted," it said.
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Indian taxi-hailing service Ola announced on Tuesday that it would include electric rickshaws on its popular mobile app.
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Other modes of electric transportation, such as motorcycles, ships, and tuk-tuks — or Thai rickshaws, are also popping up.
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According to Mr Alam, slow-moving but highly manoeuvrable vehicles like rickshaws are a big part of the problem.
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People, animals, three-wheel rickshaws and trucks are liable to veer in front of a car at any time.
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Families on motorbikes, rickshaws packed with school children, buses and cars at capacity, and throngs walking along the roadside.
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For example, you can hail motorcycles and auto-rickshaws in East Africa, and rent GPS-enabled scooters in Paris.
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When the internet first arrives, conveyed by the digital rickshaws of caterwauling modems, it seems like an inherently humanistic endeavor.
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In East Africa, that means "boda bodas" and "bajajis", also called "tuk tuks", - local terms for motorcycles and rickshaws, respectively.
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As part of "Mission: Electric," Ola said it will add 10,000 new electric rickshaws across three additional cities this year.
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I remember the enchanting, brightly colored boardwalk of my childhood; I remember the cotton candy vendors, the rickshaws, the buskers.
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Ride-hailing giant Ola has announced plans to put 1 million electric vehicles on India's streets, including 10,000 electric rickshaws.
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Above the city's winding streets, crowded with fleets of auto rickshaws and mopeds, billboards declare that every home deserves Hitachi cooling.
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Ola announced today that it will add 10,000 electric auto-rickshaws to its fleet in India over the next 12 months.
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Uber did not divulge details on the number of electric rickshaws that would be deployed or the cities it would target.
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Some people get worried about security, but millions of Indians use auto-rickshaws everyday so why should I be any different?
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Three-wheeled rickshaws are widespread in many Egyptian cities, usually in neighborhoods with narrow alleyways, and are mostly imported from India.
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It is being operated in partnership with Bharatiya Micro Credit (BMC), which will provide the financial support for procuring e-rickshaws.
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The e-rickshaws are expected to be an upgrade for existing cycle rickshaw drivers, as they involve considerable lesser physical effort.
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After 10 minutes that felt like much more than that, our rickshaws pulled to a stop near a stand of pomegranates.
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The Gulshan rickshaws are now painted a standard yellow and black, stripped of the gaudy colors that used to adorn them.
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But the city's horse-drawn buggies, long a staple means of getting around, are under an emerging threat from motorized rickshaws.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced over the weekend that the company would deploy a fleet of electric delivery rickshaws in India.
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According to Eid, Careem is looking into providing a rickshaw service in Karachi, where there is an abundance of these traditional rickshaws.
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That's just a fraction of the roughly 200,000 trips that rickshaws in Lahore take every day, according to the Awami Rickshaw Union.
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As he guided his clients past carts, rickshaws and masses of people, he told the story of the place through its food.
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The ride-hailing players face resistance from traditional, unionized taxi services and three-wheeler auto rickshaws, whose standard fares they are undercutting.
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The ride-hailing players face resistance from traditional, unionised taxi services and three-wheeler auto rickshaws, whose standard fares they are undercutting.
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Quader smiled down from posters hung from trees, electrical wires, and plastered on walls, as loudspeakers perched atop rickshaws blared Hasina's praises.
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In a bid to promote sustainable and affordable forms of transport, India's Ola Cabs will be introducing electric rickshaws on its app.
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Here, the streets were built only broad enough to allow two rickshaws to pass, while shoulder-width alleys snake to the docks.
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They will soon undo all the benefits of banning rickshaws and then some, Mr Alam says, if public transport is not improved.
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His face was everywhere — on banners, lampposts and torn flags flying from the sputtering rickshaws that flit in and out of traffic.
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Witnesses told news channels that the collapse sounded like a bomb, shaking the surrounding buildings and engulfing pedestrians, rickshaws, cars and buses.
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Young men crammed into mini-buses and rickshaws were seen shouting slogans and waving the red and yellow flag of Karnataka state.
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The company operates in 110 Indian cities and has a wide range of transport options including bikes, auto-rickshaws and electric cars.
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If Mumbai is synonymous with kaali-peeli (black-and-yellow) taxis, then Delhi has its ubiquitous auto-rickshaws or autos in local parlance.
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Cars and auto-rickshaws zoomed by, people and cows wandered past, but all I could focus on was what was happening to me.
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Even the drivers of Mumbai's three-wheeled auto-rickshaws have begun accepting payments that go through UPI to their (presumably new) bank accounts.
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The Ali brothers, both of whom drove bicycle rickshaws in Gauhati, had gone to the tribunal on the day it delivered its judgment.
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E-rickshaws have been on the Indian market for a few years but have yet to be incorporated into the country's sharing economy.
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Ola has launched 5,100 Ola e-rickshaws in Delhi, and the neighbouring cities of Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad in the first phase.
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In the dust of a Delhi morning, lines of auto-rickshaws can be found parked up at the city's many street food stalls.
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A few rickshaws rattling through the streets carried not tourists but students celebrating their graduation with a photo shoot in traditional Japanese garb.
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A few rickshaws rattling through the streets carried not tourists but students celebrating their graduation with a photo shoot in traditional Japanese garb.
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"There are several women waiting to get the rickshaws," said Aslam, who also runs the Environment Protection Fund, a Pakistani non-profit agency.
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Some packed into huge green trucks rented by the government, others paid to be driven in Land Cruisers or rickshaws to the border.
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He hailed two rickshaws — the three-wheel kind powered by people, not motors — told each where to go, the price he would pay — no motors, no meters — and motioned for his son and me, borderline millennials more accustomed to ride sharing than rickshaws, to hoist ourselves into one, while he and my mother-in-law expertly climbed into the other.
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Taxi Fabric has even tried its hand at auto rickshaws, and even plans to work on buses, trains and underground subways in the future.
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Small hybrid cars have become highly popular among Sri Lankans, with many taxi operators buying them to replace auto rickshaws known as tuk-tuks.
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In the Central Highlands, where the hills are terraced into rice paddies, hand-pulled rickshaws are the main form of transport in the towns.
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When I try to discuss some feminist initiatives I've heard of—pink women-only rickshaws, for example, to combat sexual harassment—she is unmoved.
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Its correspondent reported seeing smashed yellow taxis and rickshaws, and the bloody legs of trapped people jutting from the fallen steel beams and concrete.
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The company is the largest manufacturer of auto rickshaws and has a market share of 86 percent in three-wheelers running on alternate fuel.
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The streets, clogged with hundreds of people and convoys carrying politicians, became so chaotic that some victims were transported to hospitals in auto rickshaws.
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Rickshaws whizzed from roundabout to roundabout; kebab stands on sidewalks did brisk business; men and women filled the bazaars, shopping before the Friday prayer.
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In Ngaba district, where cement trucks vie for space with rickshaws on dilapidated, flooded roads, some residents have turned to the only option left: criminality.
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For those looking for a more authentic way of getting around, tuk-tuks, or rickshaws with an engine, provide a fun alternative to the BTS.
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Over a decade ago it introduced a battery of pollution controls, such as requiring most buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws to convert to natural gas.
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Women travelers need to be better informed regarding precautions they can take, like avoiding walking in streets after dark or taking public transportation or rickshaws.
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Lahore's roads are lawless, crammed with donkey carts, horse carriages, and rickshaws; drivers weave in and out of the livestock and zoom past traffic lights.
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Three-wheeled rickshaws whirl out of the roundabouts straight at you, packs of stray dogs dash into the road, huge buses lurch up from behind.
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Riding on donkey carts and rickshaws, protesters scoured towns and villages across Gaza on Tuesday collecting old tyres from mechanics' shops, fields and garbage dumps.
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Today, the area around the temple is active and lively, full of shops, vendors and tuk tuks (auto rickshaws) weaving in and out of traffic.
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Ola also operates in over 100 cities, as compared to Uber's presence in 26, and has a bigger fleet of cars as well as auto rickshaws.
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All public transport, taxis, rickshaws and many private cars have been converted to compressed natural gas (CNG), which is cheaper and cleaner than diesel or petrol.
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As even the briefest exposure to Dhaka's cacophonous parade of tinkling cycle rickshaws, tooting three-wheelers and honking SUVs reveals, this is a country of bottlenecks.
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That said, it has made progress with a fleet of electric cars and rickshaws which have operated in the city of Nagpur since earlier this year.
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As the temperature climbs to 114 degrees, that means forgoing the usual rickshaws (in summertime, essentially fan-assisted ovens) and car pooling with services like Uber.
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In Lahore, it is commonly expected for passengers to negotiate the fare of taxis or auto rickshaws, a popular mode of transport, before starting the journey.
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BANGALORE, India — On a hot afternoon in a two-story house here, as dogs barked and auto-rickshaws sputtered outside, a venture capitalist grilled three entrepreneurs.
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Driving along KG Marg, one of the main roads in central Delhi, we find around 30 auto-rickshaws tucked away on the side of the road.
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Three-wheel auto-rickshaws and mini-buses - often cramped and with no air conditioning - have filled the transport gap on Karachi's streets despite grumbling from commuters.
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With a loan from the cooperative, Begam bought three auto-rickshaws: She rents one to her adult son, who makes a living by driving one in Sonagachi.
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Another app, called Ola, allows users to hail rickshaws, but users must have a valid Indian-based phone number so I was unable to test it out.
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The Longcross prop room was also stacked full of weapons, staffs, sticks, fans and blades that sat among rustic bowls, dusty books, rickshaws, relics and prayer wheels.
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In India I observed how the auto-rickshaws were the cheap way to get around, so I studied how they were hailed and how prices were negotiated.
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In April, data intelligence company SocialCops conducted an experiment with five low-cost GPS-enabled IoT devices that were installed on five auto rickshaws for a month.
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Ola, which has already tied up with 80,000 auto rickshaws actoss India, said that it hopes to promote greater mobility in India's smaller towns through the initiative.
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When injured students were rushed on rickshaws to a hospital, Mr. Liu cycled alongside, steering the handlebars with one hand and gripping his camera with the other.
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They use vans, motorcycles, rickshaws, bicycles, carts, tables and chairs, or even a simple piece of cardboard laid out on pavements to transport and sell their foods.
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A lot of these innovations ... you should see the stuff they're doing in China, it's insane, around buses, around small cars, around rickshaws, around ... and it's all private.
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Residents in the area told Reuters they saw UAE-trained forces discarding their military uniforms and fleeing the facility in three-wheeled rickshaws with guns in their laps.
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Jugnoo, a startup that provides an Uber-like service for auto-rickshaws in India, has closed out its Series B round having raised a total of $280 million.
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Others say that they are inefficient, that four rickshaws rolling abreast on a Dhaka street take up the square footage of a bus while transporting just eight passengers.
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Ken Tadashi Oshima, a specialist on East-West influences in design, found an old book of images of the Imperial Hotel, with rickshaws and automobiles pictured out front.
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"Regardless of what it was, the crowd grabbed and carried everything they could from the Monopoly Bureau and burned it, even cars, bicycles and rickshaws," Mr. Chung wrote.
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The first e-rickshaws appeared about a decade ago when small manufacturers imported ready-to-assemble kits from China, where the vehicles were used mainly to haul cargo.
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The first e-rickshaws appeared about a decade ago when small manufacturers imported ready-to-assemble kits from China, where the vehicles were used mainly to haul cargo.
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With motorcycles and rickshaws hustling on the street and huge Coca-Cola ads hovering over the entrance, New Lucky looks like just any other restaurant in today's Ahmedabad.
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"Rickshaw drivers do not know anything about these (online apps)," said Majeed Ghauri, head of the union, which represents the drivers of 60,000 of Lahore's roughly 80,000 registered rickshaws.
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Drivers from both companies have been demanding a hike to the base rate, which currently stands lower than government-fixed fares for local taxicabs and three-wheeled auto rickshaws.
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Motorbikes and three-wheel rickshaws are ubiquitous in the country, and India's government announced last year that only electric two and three-wheel vehicles would be allowed by 2000.
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The dead or seriously wounded were heaped on the backs of bicycles or tricycle rickshaws and supported by friends who rushed through the crowds, sometimes sobbing as they ran.
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Every morning, I woke up in the Unesco-protected historical center overlooking the mocha-latte waters of the Mekong River to the sound of rickshaws making their delivery rounds.
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With the introduction of the electric tram car at the end of the 19th century, the rickshaws began to disappear, and the family adapted by opening a small grocery.
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Since late August, loudspeakers mounted on tricycle rickshaws have rolled around the town, blaring messages from local monks and Rakhine community leaders exhorting Buddhists to avoid contact with Muslims.
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Ola is in 102 cities versus Uber's 27, according to Counterpoint, and offers a wider range of products - from auto rickshaws to shuttle buses, as well as taxi rides.
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"The prices are low and the quality is good," says Shekhar Raman, who works at a bank, as he joins a long queue of bag-laden people waiting for rickshaws.
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In Bangalore, when I polled my cousin's friends, a 30-something guy working in real estate (whose name escapes me) mentioned a unique benefit of hailing rickshaws by Ola app.
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It will take him at least six months to pay back what he owes, depriving the family of the little income he would earn pulling rickshaws around Dhaka's teeming streets.
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For a while now, buses, trains and even auto-rickshaws in India have had special seats for women, but this is the first time that an airline is implementing it.
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They're not using Marty McFly's DeLoreans yet, but Asia's consumer transportation industry is embracing new technologies at a fierce pace, with electric rickshaws and driverless taxis as the latest innovations.
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Officially, rickshaws are banned on major thoroughfares like Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, but there they were, in vast phalanxes, their bicycle bells pealing above the roar of the traffic jam.
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Livguard, a private company owned by the Indian conglomerate SAR Group, manufactures batteries for pretty much any vehicle you can imagine — cars, two-wheelers, tractors, buses, trucks, and even rickshaws.
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Buses, taxis and auto rickshaws stayed off the road in West Bengal, Kerala and some other states though the national capital Delhi and the financial hub Mumbai remained largely unaffected.
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CAIRO — The gritty, working-class neighborhood of Matariya in northeast Cairo brims with noise and poverty, a place where motorized rickshaws vie with donkey carts on narrow, trash-strewn streets.
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The tributary lanes, some only eight feet wide, were built to accommodate rickshaws and bicycles, rather than cars, making shikumen tranquil oases in the heart of a traffic-plagued city.
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Ola was founded in 2010 and it covers over 110 cities in India where it offers licensed taxis, private hire cars and rickshaws through a network of over one million drivers.
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Ola also offers a range of vehicle options, from the three-wheeled auto-rickshaws that are extremely popular in India to the luxury sedans aimed at business executives and foreign visitors.
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"The only disappointment is to get the funding for more rickshaws because the demand is out there and it is just a matter of getting all the funds together," Aslam said.
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And yet, walk through the city on a stifling hot day in June, and you'll find people pedaling bicycle rickshaws, hauling goods on their heads, constructing towers of glass and steel.
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It operated between 2012–173 and enabled the city's poorer communities to be producers and consumers of their own films using reconditioned discarded smartphones as cameras and adapted rickshaws as projectors.
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At a water distribution point in North Chennai, people crowded around taps, with some arriving on the three-wheeler auto-rickshaws loaded with as many pots and buckets as they could carry.
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The company, which currently has a majority share of India's ride-hailing market, operates in 110 cities and has a wide range of transport options including bikes, auto-rickshaws and electric cars.
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Jumia follows Uber, which introduced a low-cost, quick-trip option called Chap Chap to users in Kenya in 225.70 and has added a motorcycle service in Uganda and rickshaws in Tanzania.
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While wandering around the city—which teemed with mango-colored rickshaws, raucous bazaars, and pink bougainvillea spilling over compound walls—he had been surprised to discover that it was full of mosques.
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The move toward electric rickshaws got a big lift after a recent visit by President Macky Sall to India, where he saw motorized cabs widely in use and liked what he saw.
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Help has been promised by a Scotland-based charity, run by pop star Annie Lennox, and Pink Rickshaw founder, Zar Aslam, said she hopes to get the money for ten rickshaws by September.
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Commuting women in India have many options available when it comes to transport: the local metro, private auto-rickshaws, city buses, and now Ola and Uber cabs that are often cheaper than prepaid taxis.
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And anyway, in a city with 203m cars but some 7m motorbikes and motorised rickshaws, and with many exempt from the ban such as taxis and other public vehicles, the effects would be minimal.
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It's not the most practical way of getting around, but then again the same could be said for rickshaws more generally, and that hasn't stopped cities like London being overrun by pedal-powered versions.
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Bezos uploaded a video on Instagram and Twitter over the weekend that showed him riding around in an electric rickshaw and announcing a new fleet of Amazon e-rickshaws, ending with the hashtag #ClimatePledge.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of women in the Indian city of Mumbai have won permits to drive auto-rickshaws, or tuk-tuks, through a lottery aimed at encouraging more women to take the wheel.
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Volunteer Ramachandra Maharana, 26, said that in his home village near Gopalpur port, everything - from three-wheeler rickshaws to goods-carrying mini trucks - was commandeered to move children, older and other vulnerable people to safety.
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In the next few weeks the first wave of electric vehicles under Ola's pilot scheme, including two-wheelers, rickshaws and cars, will roll out in the southern state of Telangana and Nagpur city in central India.
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To cross the street — a throbbing two-lane road coursing with auto rickshaws, clattering cargo trucks, scooters carrying whole families — requires stepping in front of the slower-moving vehicles, if necessary stopping them with their bodies.
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Hot air balloons are alright, and rickshaws are okay too, but if we want the world to start taking this "DJing" thing seriously, we need to put it at the forefront of a radical scientific breakthrough.
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A recent ban — unrelated to coronavirus — on the city's fleet of motorcycle taxis and auto-rickshaws meant that many Lagosians are in even closer contact than usual, raising the risk of exposure should the virus spread.
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They implemented a similar system in January and April 2016 -- but later studies found that while traffic eased during the experiment, potential emission improvements were offset by an increase in the number of motorcycles and auto-rickshaws.
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Pathao wants to add cycle rickshaws and allow users to shop online through the platform as part of its bid to grow as a super-app, similar to strategies of China's Tencent, Singapore's Grab and Go-Jek.
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Located in Tauru, northern Haryana state, some 60 kms (37 miles) from New Delhi, the museum boasts cars, buses, motorbikes, auto rickshaws and carriages from the 20th century that Tarun Thakral has collected and restored over 22 years.
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Uber may have pulled its project to work with auto-rickshaws in India, but that isn't stopping startup Jugnoo from zooming ahead with its plans to turn the iconic and budget transportation service into an on-demand one.
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Beyond the scrum of bargain hunters, batik stalls and bicycle rickshaws at the far end of Jalan Malioboro, a sweet and smoky haze proclaims a strip of tiny restaurants sprawled out on the sidewalk, collectively known as the lesehan.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Ola built itself into India's leading ride-hailing company by catering to the particular needs of Indian customers, who often like to settle fares in cash and jump on cheap, three-wheeled auto-rickshaws for short trips.
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A number of Uber's safety measures — including in-journey status updates and an SOS button to authorities — and its brief foray into auto-rickshaws and 'Go' hatchback service (which expanded into neighboring countries) were also born out of the country.
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The Indian city of Gurugram, which in Hindi means "village of the guru," is a technology-and-business hub twenty miles south of New Delhi, reached by highways filled with auto-rickshaws, exhaust-spewing buses, and the occasional immovable cow.
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While he believes that Ola isn't overly focused on auto-rickshaws because it cannibalizes its more expensive taxi rides business, the Jugnoo chief does foresee a time when both Ola and Uber will look harder at the auto-rickshaw space.
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The Supreme Court has gone after smog-spewing coal plants and mandated that public buses, taxis and motorized rickshaws in the capital be powered by compressed natural gas, which helped decrease air pollution — though Delhi's air pollution is still horrendous.
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There is talk, said Amadou Ndéné Ndoye, deputy head of mission at the Senegalese embassy in India, of deploying the Indian rickshaws to this city of the future, where they could ferry civil servants and others around the new government center.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the streets of this South Asian mega-city, jammed solid with rickshaws, honking taxi vans, cars, bicycles, sweating pedestrians and lumbering buses with their paint scraped off in tight squeezes, getting anywhere quickly by road is impossible.
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It's chaotic in the most Indian of ways: small auto rickshaws careening past motorcycles carrying entire families, narrowly missing the rows of vendors selling tea, dried flowers, spices, bongo drums, T-shirts with sassy catchphrases, brightly colored combs and shiny plastic pinwheels.
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And on every side is a thickening stew of bicycle rickshaws, little taxis, fat Mercedes, Uber drivers riveted to their screens, drivers drifting in and out of lanes, and Mario Andretti types hurtling down the main drag six inches from each other.
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JERUSALEM — In Gaza City, pickup trucks and motorized rickshaws busily ferried piles of tires toward the border fence with Israel on Thursday as Palestinians planned for another day of protests on Friday, hoping that the thick black smoke from burning rubber would frustrate Israeli snipers.
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The chunky, low-powered vehicles, made by Bajaj Auto Ltd , are billed as a greener alternative to ordinary cars and India's ubiquitous 3-wheel auto rickshaws, sometimes called tuk-tuks, which are cheap but give passengers hardly any protection from petrol fumes and monsoon rains.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Ride hailing company Uber Technologies Inc and Bengaluru-based start-up Sun Mobility said on Wednesday they will partner to offer commuters in India electric auto-rickshaws in the coming months, amid a push by policymakers to encourage the use of cleaner fuels.
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While work on the self-driving vehicles is still in the early stages, Mahindra & Mahindra has been building electric vehicles in India since the mid-1990s, when it developed a small fleet battery-powered, three-wheeled rickshaws for use in Delhi, the chairman said.
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - As taxi hailing giant Uber enters Pakistan, a little-known local competitor is counting on a mix of new ideas and old technology to tap what could be a big chunk of the market: low-income residents who travel in rickshaws, not cabs.
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EARTH movers, fertiliser, artificial limbs, uranium, rickshaws, hotels, textiles, tea, mutual funds, petrol, broadband, pills, coal, fighter jets, sex toys and much more beside: the range of products and services purveyed by Indian state-owned firms would put even the most sprawling of conglomerates to shame.
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Read More: What It Takes to Lure Uber to Your Small Town As tech companies deploy fleets of airplanes, drones, and rickshaws to reach their customers, they will have to figure out how to dissect the seemingly simple, but globally inconsistent, idea of someone's home address.
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In New Delhi, public transportation, including the metro and rickshaws, has been suspended, all shops, factories, places of worship and offices have been shut, interstate travel has stopped, borders with neighboring states have closed and people are required to stay in their homes until March 14.
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Photographs by Knut Egil Wang/MOMENT/INSTITUTE for The New Yorker On the way to Kannur, a city of some two hundred thousand on the Arabian Sea, grand "Gulf-style" homes, painted in pastel colors, line the road, which is shared by rickshaws, eighteen-wheelers, and elephants.
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Aslam, who herself narrowly escaped kidnapping in a rickshaw when she was a student, told Reuters she had aimed to have 25 of the pink-and-white rickshaws on the road by mid-2016 but the manufacturers have sent only six, and three are too old to use.
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Cabify has also tried out a number of alternative transportation mediums — including the more gimmicky moves like helicopters and more practical, regional-specific ideas like rickshaws and boats — and will continue to explore ways of "loading" more than just passengers on to its drivers to maximise their revenues, de Antonio said.
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But no one warned us about the traffic: Indian motorbikes, Japanese cars, lumbering buses, three-wheeled taxis called tuk-tuks, battered rickshaws, squeaky bicycles, pushcarts, all crowding in, vying for space, turning one lane to two, two to four, coursing around cows and water buffalo, few stoplights to be seen.
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Ola has taken steps to electrify its fleet — it pledged last year to add 10,000 electric rickshaws to its fleet and has conducted other pilots with the goal of offering one million EVs by 2022 — but the challenge is such that it has spun out Ola Electric to go deeper into EVs.
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The caveat: since we were in his parents' old stomping-grounds, they would dictate the order of operations, which is why, within 12 hours of landing, we were barreling through the streets of Old Delhi in bicycle rickshaws, trying to find an alley that my father-in-law promised was lined with wedding invitation makers (many of whom also printed ornate business cards and stationery).
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