From Automakers To Mobility Providers - Let's Discuss The Future Today
It game is on as to who can move the most behinds and items the most miles—no longer who can sell the most cars. Rapidly approaching are driverless ride-shared cabs, trucks and delivery vehicles.
All automakers now call themselves mobility companies. They are building computers with wheels that will move about in a networked cloud of radio signals.
Ford executive Jim Hackett describes it as “the Transportation Mobility Cloud - that will enable vehicles, bicycles and mass transit to communicate. The vehicles and bikes - even city stoplights and signs - will all communicate with each other through a system that Ford calls “Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything.”
Question: Peek into the future. How do you see this affecting Detroit [=our auto industry] and Detroit [=Metro Detroit community]? How do you think it will affect you?
For instance, every house on a typical street has two, sometimes more cars. Could I see going down to one car if the others were replaced with a fleet of, say, five cooperatively-owned driverless cars? Hmmm…
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