Here are some ideas. You hear Tesla, Google, Apple, Samsung, Wink, Intel, Qualcomm, Garmin and others?
Best to perfect the technology on sparsely populated low traffic areas first and then people movers or dedicated roads instead of trains or buses.
Perfect example comes to my mind.
A retirement community with a golf course and other activities.
=================================================
Self-driving wheel chairs, golf carts and minivans with sliding doors.
Just imagine the entire golf course lawn monitored by cameras to see where watering or lawn maintenance is required and sending messages to crew using IoT. The golf ranger cart with cargo capacity to send sod or supplies to the crew and even transport the crew. Tiny solar cells and wireless technology embedded in the golf balls to help the players locate the balls or let them know that ball cannot be recovered where it is. Later the crew will know how to recover and recycle the balls and sell it back to the owner but share the profit. Players have an app in the phone to know where the balls is and automatically score. self-driving golf cars to keep track of multiple players sharing the cart and moving the cart as required on the designated areas.
Now extend the self-driving carts in the retirement community. App on the phone or TV to request a cart as in uber to go the the club house, the gold course or to visit some one in the same community or to the entrance of the community and then connect to a bus or uber or other transportation service. This may even be a minivan for larger number of people.
People mover without rail tracks
=============================
Huge corporate campuses with designated pathways for self-driving carts to move not just people but supplies between buildings. Expensive lab equipment could be shared between several buildings.
Airports do not have to invest in dedicated self-driving trains to move people between terminals, rental cars and ground transportation. They can be electric minivans or golf-carts on dedicated pathways.
Toll roads and car pools dedicated to self-driving cars can accommodate bumper to bumper vehicles moving like a train. No slow pokes holding up traffic and speeders tail gating. Nav software updated to encourage people to use combination of uber like which connect to self-driving cars can even replace the sparsely used buses and they have the priority in the sense that others have to yield when they see flashing green leaf symbols on such cars.
I see a win-win here.
Tax payers will pay less for rail, road and bus infrastructure.
Auto makers can sell cars to people who cannot drive.
People can use their time more effectively while taking less time to go from A to B and spend less because there is no need to own a car or even if they have a car, they carry a device which records the actual use and insurance may be less or more.
Yeah. There are many challenges other than technology. Vested interests to keep the status quo and monopolize, legal issues, safety concerns to name a few.
Best to perfect the technology on sparsely populated low traffic areas first and then people movers or dedicated roads instead of trains or buses.
Perfect example comes to my mind.
A retirement community with a golf course and other activities.
=================================================
Self-driving wheel chairs, golf carts and minivans with sliding doors.
Just imagine the entire golf course lawn monitored by cameras to see where watering or lawn maintenance is required and sending messages to crew using IoT. The golf ranger cart with cargo capacity to send sod or supplies to the crew and even transport the crew. Tiny solar cells and wireless technology embedded in the golf balls to help the players locate the balls or let them know that ball cannot be recovered where it is. Later the crew will know how to recover and recycle the balls and sell it back to the owner but share the profit. Players have an app in the phone to know where the balls is and automatically score. self-driving golf cars to keep track of multiple players sharing the cart and moving the cart as required on the designated areas.
Now extend the self-driving carts in the retirement community. App on the phone or TV to request a cart as in uber to go the the club house, the gold course or to visit some one in the same community or to the entrance of the community and then connect to a bus or uber or other transportation service. This may even be a minivan for larger number of people.
People mover without rail tracks
=============================
Huge corporate campuses with designated pathways for self-driving carts to move not just people but supplies between buildings. Expensive lab equipment could be shared between several buildings.
Airports do not have to invest in dedicated self-driving trains to move people between terminals, rental cars and ground transportation. They can be electric minivans or golf-carts on dedicated pathways.
Toll roads and car pools dedicated to self-driving cars can accommodate bumper to bumper vehicles moving like a train. No slow pokes holding up traffic and speeders tail gating. Nav software updated to encourage people to use combination of uber like which connect to self-driving cars can even replace the sparsely used buses and they have the priority in the sense that others have to yield when they see flashing green leaf symbols on such cars.
I see a win-win here.
Tax payers will pay less for rail, road and bus infrastructure.
Auto makers can sell cars to people who cannot drive.
People can use their time more effectively while taking less time to go from A to B and spend less because there is no need to own a car or even if they have a car, they carry a device which records the actual use and insurance may be less or more.
Yeah. There are many challenges other than technology. Vested interests to keep the status quo and monopolize, legal issues, safety concerns to name a few.
No comments:
Post a Comment