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How to make unmanned cars much more intelligent?

ArticlesBy Serge Van ThemscheFebruary 17, 2017

  How to make unmanned cars much more intelligent? If you are reading this article, it’s probably that you wonder why to associate intelligence with unmanned cars? After all, it’s only codes that programmers from Google, Tesla or Uber or smaller start-up wrote. Furthermore, and even if it were possible to make cars more intelligent,…

Private transport is associated with conventional cars. Cars pollute, run empty during peak hours, stay idle 95% of the time and are privately owned. Fifteen years from now, the first driverless cars will start hitting the road in large numbers. By then most cars will be electric. If the service-oriented business model takes on momentum, a fleet of unmanned taxis will compete directly with buses and light trains. At that point in time, differences between public and private transport will only be semantic. After all, metro, buses and cars will all be unmanned, electric and managed by a fleet operator. As a consequence, city developers will have problems, justifying subsidies to bus and light vehicle operations. Without these subsidies, buses and light trains will have problems, competing with car transport. Unmanned taxis will cut journey cost by around 60% to 80%. New taxi apps allowing for car sharing will slash cost even further, making unmanned taxi fares unbeatable. Furthermore, driverless taxis will provide better services, picking up and dropping off passengers where they want to rather than stopping at each station. So if unmanned taxis are cheaper and provide better service, what selling arguments are left for buses and light metros? Transport capacity? Not really! In fact, a fleet of unmanned taxis using platooning technology (cars following each other at one-metre distance) and car sharing apps would achieve around 15.000 PPHPD per lane, more than a bus and equal to light train operations.

Will Electric Driverless Cars Kill Bus And Light Train Operations?

ArticlesBy Serge Van ThemscheJanuary 31, 2017

Will Electric Driverless Cars Kill Bus And Light Train Operations?   Private transport is associated with conventional cars. Cars pollute, run empty during peak hours, stay idle 95% of the time and are privately owned. Fifteen years from now, the first driverless cars will start hitting the road in large numbers. By then most cars…

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Analysing Uber’s market moves – and how it intends to disrupt transport markets

ArticlesBy Serge Van ThemscheOctober 6, 2016

Analysing Uber’s market moves – and how it intends to disrupt transport markets I am pretty sure that Uber’s announcements over the past couple of years around building a centre of expertise in driverless vehicles did not come as a surprise to anybody interested in these technologies. Though Uber hasn’t clearly mentioned why it would…

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Autonomous or integrated? How the connected car industry can learn from the railways

ArticlesBy Serge Van ThemscheNovember 6, 2015

  Autonomous or integrated? How the connected car industry can learn from the railways In the last year, unmanned cars have made the headlines throughout the world and the idea that cars could be driven solely by computers came as a shock for many. The reality is that driverless vehicles have been around for some…

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