Tag: autonomous vehicles

  • Access to Good Mobility Makes Real Estate Valuable

    Access to Good Mobility Makes Real Estate Valuable

    “People can’t get to the grocery store,” states Yina Moore, former Mayor of Princeton Township, New Jersey. Speaking at the 2019 SmartCarDriving Summit, Moore emphasizes that better mobility options are needed to improve the accessibility of the community. It might be said that transportation is in her blood, as her grandfather started a livery service…

  • 5 Years to the Automobility Tipping Point?

    5 Years to the Automobility Tipping Point?

    The tipping point from automobiles to automobility could happen within five years, predicts Lawrence D. Burns, PH.D., a consultant for Waymo and board member of truck platooning provider Peloton Technology. In short, when the customer value is greater than the market price which is greater than the supplier cost, we will see a tipping point…

  • Are We There Yet? An Overview of the City of San Jose/Daimler Autonomous Vehicle Community Presentation

    Are We There Yet? An Overview of the City of San Jose/Daimler Autonomous Vehicle Community Presentation

    [Disclaimer: This author is Vice President of the WNAC and helped organize the meeting described below. Further commentary on the meeting and autonomous vehicles can be found in the SmartDrivingCar podcast, hosted by Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser and journalist, Fred Fishkin. https://soundcloud.com/smartdrivingcar/smart-driving-cars-episode-121] Are we there yet? This familiar refrain, often asked by children on a long…

  • The Flexible Vehicle Interior #CES2109

    The Flexible Vehicle Interior #CES2109

    What will happen in the vehicles of tomorrow when the interiors can change dynamically to meet the needs of the passengers and/or owner? Magna, the huge vehicle OEM, is pondering this question and displayed some of their early thinking on this topic at CES2019. Their early research is about understanding today’s mobility use cases, as…

  • Journey Mapping to a New Way of Design

    Journey Mapping to a New Way of Design

    What does studying baboons have to do with designing the human interface for the autonomous mobility of the future? Find out by watching the above video, filmed at the 2019 SmartDrivingCars Summit, which also provides an overview of: participatory design using journey mapping to help people understand how they use different modes of transport and…

  • Viodi View – 05/22/19

    Viodi View – 05/22/19

    From a one-of-a-kind reception to a beautiful venue centered around learning to a format not found in commercial conferences, the 3rd Annual SmartDrivingCars Summit is a conference like no other in the mobility space. What ultimately sets this event apart is Alain Kornhauser, his vision and the caliber and the variety of participants he brings…