What if your car could drop you off and then find parking by itself? According to electric vehicle entrepreneur Freeman H. Shen, this technology already exists. He shares his vision for a future where AI-powered electric vehicles will solve many of the problems cars currently cause, like smog, traffic congestion, accidents and, yes, endlessly circling the block looking for somewhere to park.
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Nolan McNamara
September 24, 2021 at 4:42 pm
Sounds like something a commie would say
Shotta Zulu
September 24, 2021 at 4:52 pm
I will own EVERYTHING I so please and be happy.
Bri Lar
September 24, 2021 at 4:52 pm
And if your social credit score gets to low the transportation system could lock you out or maybe lock you in and deliver you to the Authorities to be dealt with.
ianbearpig
September 24, 2021 at 4:58 pm
I enjoy my car and plan on owning many at one time sooner than later
what you make of it
September 24, 2021 at 5:11 pm
This guy is the problem
DeLiverpool
September 24, 2021 at 5:53 pm
I’m not worried about the “future”. Thanks. We need to deal with the “now” – which isn’t rosy. Thanks.
LordGryllwotth
September 24, 2021 at 5:56 pm
I support this.
But they need to be capable to act independently, communicate together and not rely on data centers.
They should be usable at the lowest level if anything happens.
Brad King
September 24, 2021 at 6:20 pm
Car sharing sounds like a nightmare. Ask taxi or uber drivers how some people treat cars that aren’t theirs.
MrStredders
September 24, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Except with autonomous EVs, you’ll just be a passenger, same as if you were in a taxi or Uber, not like driving a rental car.
D greene
September 24, 2021 at 6:30 pm
What works in CHINA, will not work, EVERYWHERE else. Europe for example, has multiple different languages and sides of the road places are driven on. In the United States, no city has a public transportation system which competes with cars in terms of volume of passengers. Americans simply don’t like sharing. Sorry but good luck. I also think the whole Uber/Lyft thing, will be less attractive when you summon an AI drive vehicle with a dirty interior left by the 30th passenger that day. Nor do I think during a pandemic anybody really wants to indulge in personal transport like this anyway. So good luck with the whole automatic remote central AI driven vehicles. One day, but not in the next few years I doubt it.
kicka55
September 24, 2021 at 8:19 pm
There will be fewer cars but for different reasons he mentions. We simply move most of our work into the cloud and don’t have to drive to work anymore. We order more and more stuff online. We just don’t need cars that often anymore.
Darth Jesus
September 24, 2021 at 10:43 pm
@kicka55 Not everyone work in the tech industries.
Darth Jesus
September 24, 2021 at 10:45 pm
imho, we get rid of the 8-5 norm. That would alleviate traffic.
Marrz82
September 24, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Mind blowing 🤯 points well made👏👏👍✌🤘
Damir Dado
September 24, 2021 at 6:57 pm
Cars are polluters and trains are future…. on ground in air … but buy me coffee for 1mil idea
bj0rn
September 24, 2021 at 8:32 pm
Pedagogic presentation of an old idea.
bj0rn
September 24, 2021 at 8:54 pm
A potential downside to this would be that traffic becomes yet another thing that is managed from above, rather than something that is available for pretty much anyone who holds a job. It could easily become a tool for a monopoly corporation or an authoritarian state to use against the interests of their citizens. So you are trying to protest? Nope, not gonna happen. Your car will not go to that meeting place you agreed on. You are journalist reporting on the wrong-doings of your government? Well, now your car is going to a special place where few journalists return from. We have to think about what can go wrong too, before we do away with our perhaps most important means to freedom of mobility.
Rick54
September 24, 2021 at 9:04 pm
in 15 years the only dinosaurs selling oil to each other will be Russia and Texas. Imagine being able to visit a living, breathing museum to witness how people used to live… eco-tourism!? Ha,
Tjalle Haaze
September 24, 2021 at 9:11 pm
Wow, IMF-directors, bankers, and now industrialists? Done with ted, they didn’t deliver on last years’ amazing promises.
M. Roman
September 24, 2021 at 10:13 pm
No one promised, anything, academic. They share ideas.
Tjalle Haaze
September 24, 2021 at 10:54 pm
@M. Roman I don’t care whether or not it’s academic. There’s plenty of people without great credentials that have ideas worth sharing, but if you say you want to change things don’t bring on people who are interested in keeping things the way they are. Old TED presented you with the optimal way of growing tiny forests, innovative attempts at restoring damaged ecosystems and better ways of building cities that relied on great designs rather than overly complicated smart systems that are autonomously driving us towards mining the deep sea. What’s a businessman doing on a stage that was reserved for creative thinkers? Why are we constantly being told that the powers that be are making a fist for the planet, instead of just fisding it? TED’s fallen prey to repressive tolerance. The boss has decided to ‘give in’ to the protestors. By joining them. And what self-respecting organization would send him away? Isn’t this what they wanted? Real influence? Sure, but their stage is now his.
M. Roman
September 24, 2021 at 10:10 pm
One must wonder who the thumbs down forward looking geniuses are. I have a feeling it’s the “Me, Me, Me” type.
J
September 25, 2021 at 1:00 am
Tell me the truth, which do you prefer : a world full of people that constantly concern themselves with what everyone else is doing, or a world full of people that look after their own needs before attempting to help others?
Carson Redford
September 24, 2021 at 10:19 pm
This guy should come to the American West and see how vast the wide-open spaces are. Cars are necessary and the only means of transportation in places that are so expansive and wild. Not all of us live in giant metropolitan cities. Even then – cars are so much better than any form of public transportation.
J
September 25, 2021 at 12:56 am
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Eli Nope
September 24, 2021 at 11:23 pm
I don’t share his hopes for the future.
Tim A
September 24, 2021 at 11:42 pm
Good luck selling this “fewer cars” idea to automobile manufacturers.
MrStredders
September 25, 2021 at 12:02 am
Maybe they’ll have to adapt? 🤔
Tim A
September 25, 2021 at 12:41 am
@MrStredders I’m all for this idea but what i mean is big auto isn’t gonna to adapt willingly unless somehow they benefit financially. I really hope I’m wrong and this becomes reality though in the near future. Just look how the smog over LA clear up after the first week of the covid lock down.
MrStredders
September 25, 2021 at 1:07 am
@Tim A of course they won’t, like any dying industry. How long do we keep propping them up though?
Tim A
September 25, 2021 at 1:50 am
@MrStredders I assume as soon as we become educated enough to understand, empathetic enough to care, and rich enough to support an alternative. Ideas like smart EVs and others in this video is a great place to start.
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September 24, 2021 at 11:57 pm
I read this as fewer caTs, not caRs, and thought, who would want such a horrible life? But fewer cars, yeah, I’ll gladly live that life.
MrStredders
September 25, 2021 at 12:09 am
Europeans and Asians: Yeah this makes sense
Americans: They’ll never take our cars!
J
September 25, 2021 at 12:57 am
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September 25, 2021 at 1:07 am
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Pandaboi
September 25, 2021 at 1:02 am
The title of this video is good, everything else is not. The presenter for this video is a car-maker trying to sell us a techno-fix for a political problem. Electric cars are not the solution, autonomous vehicles are not the solution, ride-sharing is not the solution. We don’t just need less cars, we fundamentally just need fewer kilometers driven. Ride-sharing, EV’s, and autonomous vehicles are better than what we have, but they’re not better than nothing.
Cars generate pollution, kill people, and create massive parking lots. The above changes fix that. However, cars also kill small businesses, isolate communities from each-other, generate MASSIVE amounts of noise (even EV’s) to the point people flee the city to escape it, hinder the psychological development of children, bankrupt cities, contribute to the obesity epidemic, and raise house prices. This is completely ignoring not only the emissions that go into making the cars, but also the emissions that go into paving the roads for them.
We need to replace cars, not with different cars, but with literally anything else.
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September 25, 2021 at 2:07 am
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September 26, 2021 at 11:32 am
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September 25, 2021 at 2:30 am
A lot of shortcomings he never mentioned. Anyhow Ford in Detroit at the Central Brain Station is the leader in this
Charley Edwards
September 25, 2021 at 2:38 am
100%
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September 25, 2021 at 2:42 am
thank you for delivering that in English for us, your English is really pretty darn good, I understood every word
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September 25, 2021 at 2:43 am
Thanks for the 7 minute long ad.
Next Please!!!
Lavender
September 25, 2021 at 7:22 am
What Ad? He never said anything about companies or brands. Ideas are not Ads
Random Tube
September 25, 2021 at 3:17 am
You mean a future with fewer people. Fewer people, fewer cars 😂
d
September 25, 2021 at 11:09 am
He didn’t talk about the intersectionality of race and genders so this is not a TED video. What about black trans rights, TED? He didn’t talk about that at all. This needs to be more esoteric and meaningless.
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September 25, 2021 at 11:23 am
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September 25, 2021 at 3:47 pm
if the idea of, everyone using a pooled set of self driving cars to its logical conclusions, then yes alot of good stuff can happen. The problem will be people, there is so much in our lives, about passing out test, and owning our own cars, that some people are going to be very resistant. Meanwhile there will be some “old money” who objects to this future, and drag it out, so we may never seen the full benefits. Finally its all very well saying “there might be more green space”, but that is promise a self driving car designer can make. The downside is obviously jobs lost in haulage, or in taxi/uber type services.
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September 25, 2021 at 4:48 pm
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Holly
September 25, 2021 at 4:49 pm
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Ch S
September 26, 2021 at 3:31 am
There would also need to be a lot of trust from the customers into the system controlling the cars, even more trust if people monitor those systems. I’d be afraid that something like this could be hacked into
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September 28, 2021 at 6:50 am
You need much less trust than in a human driver. Those are even more dangerous today, when these systems are still in beta.
123
September 26, 2021 at 3:33 am
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Without his drive, automotive industry today would still have no plans for EV.
Pandaboi
September 26, 2021 at 11:44 am
Elon Musk does not deserve any praise. Putting aside that EV’s aren’t a solution the problem, and may infact just make things worse, Elon Musk is not responsible for the change. The demand was there, he just got there first and stole the wealthy early adopters.
Mauricio
September 26, 2021 at 3:39 am
Sorry since I was a kid I’ve loved cars and have a passion for them. I have worked hard to own my three classics and my daily driver.. I love to drive.. for me it’s the freedom of roaming the open road. Call me what you want but I don’t plan on having any less cars. No I’m not some old grumpy guy I’m 30 and love cars sorry not giving up any of that.
Eddie Yun
September 26, 2021 at 6:57 am
Good for you
123
September 26, 2021 at 3:40 am
Excuse why this dude is presenting this? He is late to this party.
PetThePizza
September 26, 2021 at 3:57 am
The conversation around cars is framed in entirely the wrong way. In order to solve the problems caused by the need for cars like emissions, congestion, noise, huge lots for parking and large roads and highways, we have to shift our focus away from cars completely and build a robust public transit system.
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