I would love it when we can swap all transportation vehicles for autonomous vehicles (street, water, air)! Wrt selling rides instead of vehicles, I love the successes of all these car sharing companies having today. Snappcar is the largest in Netherlands, and one of the largest in Europe (the are international already); a service allowing booking of cars from the neighbours. We also have a few companies making cars available at almost each corner of a street which can be booked for a ride; With an electronic key, users can open the car, start it, and drive off. Greenwheels is one of the early adopters of this service in Netherlands; They started already years ago. Next evolution is (obviously) the self driven vehicles with some more advantages over todays car sharing services; Cant wait when we get this deployed for a larger consumer base.
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That car booking service sounds very interesting. We don't have anything like that here in Canada - as far as I know. We have similar services for Bicycles but thats it.
Yeah with autonomous vehicles, people will probably start renting out their cars to others while they are at work. There are so many possibilities with this technology. I really think its going to change our world significantly. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it :)
What about individuals not owning the cars anymore at all? Why would we, when we can summon an autonomous vehicle when we need one? Canada, USA is different to Europe I suppose. In most European cities, public transport is well arranged, and we are used to using a combination of own/shared vehicles (car, scooter, cycle) and public transportation. Our culture already includes the idea of using public transportation and sharing economy is pretty much booming (ok, still in its early stages, but still). The young generation is changing their habits; The group of people not getting a driving license is increasing in the Netherlands and a larger percentage is not buying a car.
Yeah I definitely think that Europe is more advanced than the America's when it comes to public transportation and car sharing. Probably green energy as well - at least parts of Europe. I think that these things will become the norm to the younger generations which will push the technology and practicality even further. Sharing economies make so much more sense in today's world. It's more economical for individuals and it requires less consumption and less resource depletion. Whats the point of many individuals owning their own boat (for instance) if each of them only use it a few times a year? It makes more sense to make that resource available to a larger community to be rented as they need it. I think as a society we need to move away from resource ownership/exploitation and the overall consumption based economies. They are becoming outdated and damaging to the environment.
100% Agree! ;)
Vehicle to vehicle communication will be key for autonomous vehicles. Hopefully with evolving cellular technology, we can achieve the data transfer reqiurments for vehicle communication.