our addiction to automobiles is a kind of madness. And this is before we’ve taken into account the far-reaching consequences of fossil fuel dependence, from wars in the Middle East to a catastrophic climate crisis.
We’ll relax as we whizz along in comfort, safe in the knowledge that we’re not polluting the planet – and we’ll never have to worry about parking,
Unless you’re deep in the countryside, out at sea or on a desert island, you’ll most likely hear the vr-vr-vroom of an automobile’s internal combustion engine.
choking it with exhaust fumes and filling it with noise pollution. And given this high cost, you might be surprised to learn that the internal combustion engine and the gas-guzzling vehicles it powers use energy very inefficiently.
the average vehicle weighs about 3,000 pounds and the average person weighs about 150 pounds,
whole cities brought to a standstill by swarms of rush-hour cars. The average speed in congested cities, according to the US Department of Transportation, can be as low as 12 mph, which is highly fuel-inefficient.
most of those cars aren't even full! The average occupancy in vehicles is just 1.1 people on a daily work commute.
we use our vehicles just 5 percent of the time,
highly uneconomical use of space.
we dedicate large parts of our homes to garages and driveways. And our workplaces, our shopping centers and sports stadiums have to build enormous parking lots, too
All of this adds up to a giant, damaging waste of energy and space. So, the question isn’t “Why would we want to do away with cars as we use them today?”
Many of our great inventions are born out of frustration and despair
And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
prevented so much suffering. Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
so many at the university relied on vehicles that traffic often slowed down to a crawl.
Larry Page began to dream of an alternative world, with rapid transportation systems featuring two-person mobility pods that could be summoned at a moment’s notice.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Over the coming days – badly shaken-up, like most Americans – he reflected hard and concluded that, because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact. At that moment, he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.
because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible.
what actually happened was that, as they competed, the engineers and roboticists had made great technical leaps to make workable automated vehicles.
German computer scientist named Sebastian Thrun,
All of these innovations wouldn’t have happened without the pressure of the races, which forced productive mistakes on the different teams.
early twentieth century heralded the era of personal car ownership. For many Americans, owning a car would become a statement of national identity and personal freedom.
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea. But
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
car manufacturing in Detroit meant oily production lines and soldering irons. American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
it was a place of computer scientists – people more comfortable coding in air-conditioned labs than stuck under the hood of a car.
“We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
themselves. An unmanned car driven by a search-engine company.” Then there’s a pause, before the narrator says, “We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
And in the mid-2000s, the two worlds, the old one of hardware and the new one of software, met.
With the older gas-powered vehicles, there were thousands of separate parts, all manufactured by different suppliers
All of these suppliers would have to adapt – or go out of business. He could see, also, that constructing electric
he was looking at the end of an age for mechanics. If a car’s functioning were to depend more on electronics and less on individual parts,
Wagoner made it clear: the innovations in front of him, he said, would put an end to the integrated auto industry as the world had known it.
four lanes of traffic at a standstill on a stretch of freeway. Drivers lean out of their vehicles, bored and hot in the summer afternoon.
Future generations will watch this movie and wonder why everyone was trapped like that.
the whole concept of private car ownership will come to an end.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car. We’ve structured our transportation systems entirely around the private ownership of vehicles. And for some, the car acts as a status symbol.
These vehicles will be tailored to seat two people, as we make most journeys alone or with one other person. We’ll then be ferried exactly to where we want to go, bidding goodbye to the vehicle, which we’ll probably never see again.
long-haul delivery and trucking will decrease by around 50 percent.
For the many employees and small business owners who make a living as drivers, this change will be a deeply worrying one.
And auto manufacturers will have to transition from selling vehicles to individual customers to operating great fleets of self-driving taxis.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!” This
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!”
the family can spend some quality time together in the hour-long commute
This means that the children can take a last-minute look at homework with their parents, without them all feeling carsick.
Complex algorithms mean that cars keep a safe distance from each other, and traffic flows smoothly, without stopping.
Crashes have been eliminated – the last accidents were long ago, in the early trial years of automation.
And the streets are designed with pedestrians foremost in mind. All of the space that was once dedicated to parking is now comprised of wide, green sidewalks.
Their vehicle whizzes off on its own, to find its next fare or to wait for another assignment, in a world that is both like and unlike our own.
The way we use gas-guzzling vehicles today is akin to madness. They are dangerous, inefficient and environmentally catastrophic.
This future will allow us more freedom and time and will be substantially cheaper, while the new alternative-propulsion engines will reduce our environmental impact.
lobby your government for better public transport links!
our addiction to automobiles is a kind of madness. And this is before we’ve taken into account the far-reaching consequences of fossil fuel dependence, from wars in the Middle East to a catastrophic climate crisis.
We’ll relax as we whizz along in comfort, safe in the knowledge that we’re not polluting the planet – and we’ll never have to worry about parking,
Unless you’re deep in the countryside, out at sea or on a desert island, you’ll most likely hear the vr-vr-vroom of an automobile’s internal combustion engine.
choking it with exhaust fumes and filling it with noise pollution. And given this high cost, you might be surprised to learn that the internal combustion engine and the gas-guzzling vehicles it powers use energy very inefficiently.
the average vehicle weighs about 3,000 pounds and the average person weighs about 150 pounds,
whole cities brought to a standstill by swarms of rush-hour cars. The average speed in congested cities, according to the US Department of Transportation, can be as low as 12 mph, which is highly fuel-inefficient.
most of those cars aren't even full! The average occupancy in vehicles is just 1.1 people on a daily work commute.
we use our vehicles just 5 percent of the time,
highly uneconomical use of space.
we dedicate large parts of our homes to garages and driveways. And our workplaces, our shopping centers and sports stadiums have to build enormous parking lots, too
All of this adds up to a giant, damaging waste of energy and space. So, the question isn’t “Why would we want to do away with cars as we use them today?”
Many of our great inventions are born out of frustration and despair
And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
prevented so much suffering. Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
so many at the university relied on vehicles that traffic often slowed down to a crawl.
Larry Page began to dream of an alternative world, with rapid transportation systems featuring two-person mobility pods that could be summoned at a moment’s notice.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Over the coming days – badly shaken-up, like most Americans – he reflected hard and concluded that, because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact. At that moment, he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.
because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible.
what actually happened was that, as they competed, the engineers and roboticists had made great technical leaps to make workable automated vehicles.
German computer scientist named Sebastian Thrun,
All of these innovations wouldn’t have happened without the pressure of the races, which forced productive mistakes on the different teams.
early twentieth century heralded the era of personal car ownership. For many Americans, owning a car would become a statement of national identity and personal freedom.
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea. But
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
car manufacturing in Detroit meant oily production lines and soldering irons. American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
it was a place of computer scientists – people more comfortable coding in air-conditioned labs than stuck under the hood of a car.
“We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
themselves. An unmanned car driven by a search-engine company.” Then there’s a pause, before the narrator says, “We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
And in the mid-2000s, the two worlds, the old one of hardware and the new one of software, met.
With the older gas-powered vehicles, there were thousands of separate parts, all manufactured by different suppliers
All of these suppliers would have to adapt – or go out of business. He could see, also, that constructing electric
he was looking at the end of an age for mechanics. If a car’s functioning were to depend more on electronics and less on individual parts,
Wagoner made it clear: the innovations in front of him, he said, would put an end to the integrated auto industry as the world had known it.
four lanes of traffic at a standstill on a stretch of freeway. Drivers lean out of their vehicles, bored and hot in the summer afternoon.
Future generations will watch this movie and wonder why everyone was trapped like that.
the whole concept of private car ownership will come to an end.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car. We’ve structured our transportation systems entirely around the private ownership of vehicles. And for some, the car acts as a status symbol.
These vehicles will be tailored to seat two people, as we make most journeys alone or with one other person. We’ll then be ferried exactly to where we want to go, bidding goodbye to the vehicle, which we’ll probably never see again.
long-haul delivery and trucking will decrease by around 50 percent.
For the many employees and small business owners who make a living as drivers, this change will be a deeply worrying one.
And auto manufacturers will have to transition from selling vehicles to individual customers to operating great fleets of self-driving taxis.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!” This
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!”
the family can spend some quality time together in the hour-long commute
This means that the children can take a last-minute look at homework with their parents, without them all feeling carsick.
Complex algorithms mean that cars keep a safe distance from each other, and traffic flows smoothly, without stopping.
Crashes have been eliminated – the last accidents were long ago, in the early trial years of automation.
And the streets are designed with pedestrians foremost in mind. All of the space that was once dedicated to parking is now comprised of wide, green sidewalks.
Their vehicle whizzes off on its own, to find its next fare or to wait for another assignment, in a world that is both like and unlike our own.
The way we use gas-guzzling vehicles today is akin to madness. They are dangerous, inefficient and environmentally catastrophic.
This future will allow us more freedom and time and will be substantially cheaper, while the new alternative-propulsion engines will reduce our environmental impact.
lobby your government for better public transport links!
our addiction to automobiles is a kind of madness. And this is before we’ve taken into account the far-reaching consequences of fossil fuel dependence, from wars in the Middle East to a catastrophic climate crisis.
We’ll relax as we whizz along in comfort, safe in the knowledge that we’re not polluting the planet – and we’ll never have to worry about parking,
Unless you’re deep in the countryside, out at sea or on a desert island, you’ll most likely hear the vr-vr-vroom of an automobile’s internal combustion engine.
choking it with exhaust fumes and filling it with noise pollution. And given this high cost, you might be surprised to learn that the internal combustion engine and the gas-guzzling vehicles it powers use energy very inefficiently.
the average vehicle weighs about 3,000 pounds and the average person weighs about 150 pounds,
whole cities brought to a standstill by swarms of rush-hour cars. The average speed in congested cities, according to the US Department of Transportation, can be as low as 12 mph, which is highly fuel-inefficient.
most of those cars aren't even full! The average occupancy in vehicles is just 1.1 people on a daily work commute.
we use our vehicles just 5 percent of the time,
highly uneconomical use of space.
we dedicate large parts of our homes to garages and driveways. And our workplaces, our shopping centers and sports stadiums have to build enormous parking lots, too
All of this adds up to a giant, damaging waste of energy and space. So, the question isn’t “Why would we want to do away with cars as we use them today?”
Many of our great inventions are born out of frustration and despair
And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
prevented so much suffering. Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
Larry Page’s dream of a world without people driving fossil-fuel-guzzling machines is no different. Page would become CEO of Google and the founder of its self-driving car project, Chauffeur. And it was a very personal sense of frustration that inspired him to dream.
so many at the university relied on vehicles that traffic often slowed down to a crawl.
Larry Page began to dream of an alternative world, with rapid transportation systems featuring two-person mobility pods that could be summoned at a moment’s notice.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Over the coming days – badly shaken-up, like most Americans – he reflected hard and concluded that, because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact. At that moment, he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
For the author, it was a dramatic worldwide event that led him to think of an alternative. On a trip to Frankfurt as General Motors’s corporate president of research, development and planning, he was called back to his hotel to receive some news. As he got back inside, he was ushered into a conference room to watch the second plane crash into the World Trade Center.
because the United States depended on oil imported from the Middle East, the auto industry bore some blame for what had happened. The attack had been a consequence of a long chain of events going back to that essential fact.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible. And he resolved that it was his duty to instigate change.
he decided that the ever-growing use of gas-powered combustion engines was deeply irresponsible.
what actually happened was that, as they competed, the engineers and roboticists had made great technical leaps to make workable automated vehicles.
German computer scientist named Sebastian Thrun,
All of these innovations wouldn’t have happened without the pressure of the races, which forced productive mistakes on the different teams.
early twentieth century heralded the era of personal car ownership. For many Americans, owning a car would become a statement of national identity and personal freedom.
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea. But
American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
car manufacturing in Detroit meant oily production lines and soldering irons. American industry and car manufacturing were synonymous for a long time, and when a few forward thinkers began to discuss automated vehicles and computers, Detroit’s auto manufacturers sneered and forgot about the idea.
it was a place of computer scientists – people more comfortable coding in air-conditioned labs than stuck under the hood of a car.
“We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
themselves. An unmanned car driven by a search-engine company.” Then there’s a pause, before the narrator says, “We’ve seen that movie. It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.”
And in the mid-2000s, the two worlds, the old one of hardware and the new one of software, met.
With the older gas-powered vehicles, there were thousands of separate parts, all manufactured by different suppliers
All of these suppliers would have to adapt – or go out of business. He could see, also, that constructing electric
he was looking at the end of an age for mechanics. If a car’s functioning were to depend more on electronics and less on individual parts,
Wagoner made it clear: the innovations in front of him, he said, would put an end to the integrated auto industry as the world had known it.
four lanes of traffic at a standstill on a stretch of freeway. Drivers lean out of their vehicles, bored and hot in the summer afternoon.
Future generations will watch this movie and wonder why everyone was trapped like that.
the whole concept of private car ownership will come to an end.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car.
it’s almost impossible to live in the suburbs or the countryside, in most countries, without owning a car. We’ve structured our transportation systems entirely around the private ownership of vehicles. And for some, the car acts as a status symbol.
These vehicles will be tailored to seat two people, as we make most journeys alone or with one other person. We’ll then be ferried exactly to where we want to go, bidding goodbye to the vehicle, which we’ll probably never see again.
long-haul delivery and trucking will decrease by around 50 percent.
For the many employees and small business owners who make a living as drivers, this change will be a deeply worrying one.
And auto manufacturers will have to transition from selling vehicles to individual customers to operating great fleets of self-driving taxis.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!” This
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A smartphone buzz alerts them that their ride has arrived, from car-sharing company “Maghicle.” They clamber into a four-seater vehicle, powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Tommy Jr. shouts: “Ride begin!”
the family can spend some quality time together in the hour-long commute
This means that the children can take a last-minute look at homework with their parents, without them all feeling carsick.
Complex algorithms mean that cars keep a safe distance from each other, and traffic flows smoothly, without stopping.
Crashes have been eliminated – the last accidents were long ago, in the early trial years of automation.
And the streets are designed with pedestrians foremost in mind. All of the space that was once dedicated to parking is now comprised of wide, green sidewalks.
Their vehicle whizzes off on its own, to find its next fare or to wait for another assignment, in a world that is both like and unlike our own.
The way we use gas-guzzling vehicles today is akin to madness. They are dangerous, inefficient and environmentally catastrophic.
This future will allow us more freedom and time and will be substantially cheaper, while the new alternative-propulsion engines will reduce our environmental impact.
lobby your government for better public transport links!
