Nova Bus to phase out U.S. manufacturing, refocus on Canada – UPI.com
Niskayuna residents be like, is it 2002 again? There is probably a reason why most of the smaller transit authorities are all Gillig shops these days, with some New Flyer buses.
For those unfamiliar with NOVA Bus, basically their company model is similar to Volkswagen in 1960s.
They bought out the mid-1970s GM Truck's RTS bus design, and cranked them out until 2003. By then fewer and fewer transit authorities wanted the old RTS designed-buses. Ultimately Niskayuna and Roswell factories closed due to lack of demand.
Then when American with Disabilities Act came around, and low-floor buses were popular, they bought out the Den Oudsten B90 bus design from the Netherlands in 1996, and cranked basically the same design out as the NOVA LFS for the next 25 years.
While they made small design improvements, and transit authorities appreciated how their parts were interchangeable with buses designed decades earlier, the world moved on, and ultimately most transit authorities did too.
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Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the company for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.
The Federal Trade Commission, in a legal complaint filed on Wednesday, says Amazon illegally used "manipulative, coercive, or deceptive" designs to enroll shoppers into auto-renewing Prime subscriptions. Regulators also accuse Amazon of purposefully building a convoluted, multi-step cancellation process to discourage people from quitting.
"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.
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