By 2030, you probably won’t own a car, but you may get a free trip with your morning coffee. Transport-As-A-Service will use electric vehicles and will upend two trillion-dollar industries. It’s the death spiral for cars.
Seven principles that will help maximise the benefits of self-driving vehicles, and minimise potential negative consequences.
UK-based autonomous transport outfit RDM Group opens Asia Pacific HQ in Adelaide, sees “massive” demand in Australia.
Telstra chief scientists says all cars on Australian roads will be driverless by 2030, based on rate of development and falling technology costs.
Elon Musk reveals part 2 of Tesla master plan, including ambition to dominate car sharing space with a fleet of customer-owned, autonomous-driving Tesla EVs.
A few weeks ago, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk boldly predicted that his electric car and storage company would be the world’s first trillion dollar company. He’s still a long way short of that dream, but will the first death from a driver using Autopilot make that goal impossible to achieve?
VW promises more than 30 new electric vehicle models, and major push into “e-mobility”, including ride sharing and autonomous vehicles.
Car ownership is expensive, dangerous and highly polluting. All three issues can be addressed by the combination of electric vehicles, car sharing, and autonomous driving. That means a new experience, a new business model, and a new multi-trillion dollar industry.
Autonomous transportation has lots of advantages. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions could be one of them.
On a Q2 earnings call, Musk reports EV production glitches and more than $1 billion in battery orders.
Almost every major automaker is investing significant R&D capital in vehicle autonomy. Will this save energy or encourage “ex-urbia”.
