Tag: MaaS

MaaS is another way to say Mobility as a Service. Elements of MaaS include demand responsiveness (available when a customer wants) that takes her exactly (or close to) where she wants to go. Uber is a great example of this, while Waymo is the classic autonomous version.

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A New Spin On Rideshare and Carshare -#SDC2022

Two Furman University students describe the rideshare and carshare project pilots that will help people with mobility needs in the Greenville, South Carolina area.
Two Furman University students describe the rideshare and carshare project pilots that will help people with mobility needs in the Greenville, South Carolina area.

As 2022 ends, autonomous technology which lowers the costs of and improves the quality of mobility is still just a promise. Fundamentally, technology must serve the needs of those who will use a given mobility solution. By starting with humans at the center of its efforts, Carolina RIDES+ is providing a foundation for understanding how […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Driverless Lessons from the Sunshine State to the Garden State

“The interesting thing about this [autonomous vehicle] technology is that it has enormous potential for improving quality of life.” With that statement, Princeton Professor Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the penultimate session of the Smart Driving Car Summit, Making It Happen – Part 1. With a line-up of political leaders, this panel looked at […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Empathy –> Trust –> Human-Centric Autonomous Mobility Design

To create successful mobility solutions, one must be willing to empathetically listen to all people and in locations that are convenient for them. This is one of the insights of Henry Greenidge, moderator of the 3/18/21 Smart Driving Car Summit panel, Human-centered Design of Safe and Affordable Driverless Mobility.  As the founder of OurMobileFuture, a […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Safety First at the “Fully” Smart Driving Car Summit*

Figure 2, The Bay Area is where much of the AV testing is taking place in California.
Figure 2, The Bay Area is where much of the AV testing is taking place in California.

It is important to distinguish between those features that enhance safety versus those that provide safety and convenience is how Princeton’s Dr. Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the Smart Driving Car Summit session, Incentivizing Through Regulation. Regulations must ensure that the comfort features, such as Automatic Cruise Control (ACC), do not degrade safety. He […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Memories of the Past Reflect the Future of Driverless

As with the other companies on the panel, Ford is not using safety as a differentiator. It is table stakes.
As with the other companies on the panel, Ford is not using safety as a differentiator.

Although the title. Finally Doing It, sounds like a 1970s B-movie, the latest session of the Smart Driving Car Summit featured superstars of the autonomous vehicle world and blockbuster content on that topic. And hearkening back to the decade of stagflation, when another nascent technology was on the verge of hitting the mainstream, the fight […]

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