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The new era of a broad ecosystem of vehicles

In 2050, people’s attitude to their vehicles is changing, and the idea of a single-family car has become obsolete.

Instead, we have a broad ecosystem of vehicles with different form factors.

For one, we use cars in a more efficient way. Cars of the past had four to five seats. The reason for that, of course, was that if you owned a vehicle, you had to plan for peak usage, i.e. when you had all the family with you. The reality was oversized five-seaters that were occupied on average by 1.7 people. Wasn’t that absurd? For instance, an SUV weighing over 1500 kilograms was used to carry around 100 kg at best.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are changing that, as they can be easily shared. You can wake up in the morning and have “your” car give you a lift to work and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family—or to anyone else in your neighborhood or city. In short, they can provide mobility on demand: when you need one seat, you get exactly that – and when you need five, you just press a different button.

There is a proliferation of vehicle form factors at the lower end of the vehicle spectrum - a kind of micro-mobility that we are already seeing on our roads with Mobikes, shareable e-bikes, e-scooters such as Bird and Lime, and so on…

There is also an increase in larger vehicles, that could act as Uber-pooling systems. Think about big minivans, for instance, 8-seaters, that allow people to share rides. Our research at the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has shown that in such a way fleets could be cut significantly – which results in potentially fewer vehicles moving through our cities.

In short, the rise of AVs and the increase in sharing give us vehicle biodiversity, allowing us to move around in more sustainable and efficient ways. 

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Jessey Baillargeon this makes sense in terms of ev cars, its one step closer to saving earth from the stupidity of humanity.
24 Jul 2020
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AvilStoneheart This is an interesting idea. Not saying I'm an expert or anything, but if your vehicle can be used by other people, like the post said, couldn't you technically track the other person that is using it? Or if you're using someone else's vehicle, couldn't they track you? The vehicle could also possibly be hacked so that it isn't yours anymore. I'm saying this considering that there might be an increase of hackers in our future.
27 May 2020
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Yusuf Bayar o zamana gelindiğinde bu dediklerin biraz zor.çünkü tekerlekli araba diye bişey kalmıyacak ve arabaların %90'ı uçar hal gelecek.yani emeğine sağlık güzel düşünce ama olmıyacak öyle bir şey...
26 Sep 2019
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Mahsun Yusuf Bayar, uçan araçlar biraz hayal ötesi yapsalardı son 20 yıl içinde çoktan yapılmış olurdu bunun tehlikelerinden biri hiçbir insan başının üzerinde araçların geçince rahat olamazlar ve istemezler.Elon Musk bir röportajında soruyorlar neden yer altı tüneli yapıyorsunuz trafiği azaltmak için bunun yerine uçan arabalar olsa daha iyi bir fikir değil mi ? Elon musk insanların duyacağı rahatsızlığı dile getirdi cevap olarak bu yüzden uçan arabalara sıcak bakmıyorlar
17 Sep 2022
Analyn Chesa Well, this is a great post. Your post is interesting and worthy of reading.
18 Apr 2019
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