Not being a “car guy,” I’m unimpressed with concept cars that show the future of automotive design—especially as they suggest perpetuating of the basic paradigm that has been with us for 100 years: big, sleek, expensive compartments that run on …
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Stanford University Hosts Conference on Driverless Cars
Here’s a post on a conference held at Stanford University recently on driverless cars. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t deny that there are benefits, e.g., fewer accidents, better productivity due to better flowing traffic, and better fuel efficiencies. But I …
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Cars: Past, Present and Future
I’m off on a hike that will ultimately take me to a vintage car show. I was explaining my viewpoint on the history of automotive design and engineering to my daughter just now, which I summarize as follows: From the …
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Quick Notes on the Future of Transportation
Today is the 117th anniversary of Henry Ford’s first successful test drive of the automobile; his four-horsepower, 500-pound frame called the “quadricycle” (pictured here) ran on pure ethanol. Electric vehicles came along shortly thereafter as well, and enjoyed impressive market …
The Changing Paradigm in Personal Transportation
Here’s an article that underscores something I firmly believe: the concept of car ownership, a paradigm of the American lifestyle in the 20th Century, is on its way out. Just as a generation decided it no longer needed a telephone that …
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Attitudes Towards Car Ownership Have Changed, Will Change Further
It’s the 109th anniversary of the first sale made by the Ford Motor Company: a Model A. From that moment, the concept of automobile ownership grew steadily and rapidly in importance in the American psyche; in fact, it expanded to …
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Video: The Future of Transportation
When I’m in the television studio next week, I plan to shoot a video promoting 2GreenEnergy’s relationship with Dan Sturges, to facilitate our telling his story as a transportation visionary/futurist. Let’s start with a tough question: Who says we need …
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Webinar: The Future of Transportation
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eOlOEQoTI]In our February webinar, I spoke with Dan Sturges: transport designer, entrepreneur, teacher, and visionary, who discusses how we need to overhaul the way we move ourselves and are cargo around the surface of the planet. Though we all …
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The Future of Transportation — February’s Free Webinar
It’s certain that 6600-pound Hummers will not occupy an important position in the way we transport our bodies and our “stuff” in the coming years. But where exactly are we going? And who’s going to make a buck in the …
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WheelChange: The Future of Transportation
I just got off the phone with Dan Sturges of WheelChange. If there’s a person on this planet who’s done more work to bring along the future of transportation, I sure want to meet him. For more than two decades, …
