Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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Picking the Swiftest Way to Travel
Lack of information represents friction to an economy and makes it less efficient than it could be. A source of friction for commuters is not knowing the fastest and most cost-efficient way to reach their destination. With new modes of transportation, such as on-demand ridesharing services and personal electric bikes and scooters, becoming mainstream, the need for timely information about routes…
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Make Things More Convenient for People
Creating better mobility solutions, while reducing the environmental impact of moving people, are the seemingly contradictory goals laid out by Gil Friend, the Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Palo Alto. Friend was part of a panel of experts at ProspectSV’s Connected and Charged conference at the SAP campus in Palo Alto who discussed the…
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Applying Telecom Technology to Transportation
A comprehensive out-of-band signaling system, much like SS7 was to the telephony world, is what Nauto promises with their product offering. Nauto Cofounder and CEO, Stefan Heck, explains that they are developing devices that use the same relatively low-cost components, such as 4k cameras, that are also used in smart phones, Nauto gathers information and communicates to…
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Jump Starting Mobility Efficiency
Silicon Valley may need to change its name to Mobility Valley, judging by the number of startups and established players that are planting roots in this tech center. In the above interview, John Boesel, president and CEO of CALSTART, points to a few of his members – Tesla, Proterra (electric buses) and Motiv Power Systems (electric drive trains) – as examples of…
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Tech as the New Mobility Status Symbol
“We are entering a time when price and size get decoupled,” says Mark Platshon, Senior Advisor of BMW i Ventures in the above video filmed at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley 2016 State of the Valley Conference. Platshon was referring to the idea that today’s buyers are increasingly looking to technology to improve the mobility experience and value that…
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Once in a Generation Opportunity
A once in a generation opportunity is how Stefan Heck characterizes the changes to the built-environment, thanks to ACES. ACES – Autonomous, Connected, Electrified and Shared – is the acronym that Heck – CEO and Co-Founder, NAUTO, and Consulting Professor, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University – invented to describe the convergence of different technologies that will transform…