Excellent talk, thank you. Really puts a lot of things in one place.
Wonder what city councils are going to do to supplement the revenue lost if and when income from parking spot use shrinks due to a combination of smaller fleets and individual cars in the fleet spending less time parked up.
Of the 4 exponentially improving technology clusters mentioned: battery storage, electric vehicles, self-driving hw/sw, solar pv -- I'm trying to imagine if any one of them might not ramp up within the 5 to 10 year time scale Tony is talking about. And I guess it would have to be the software[1] part of the self-driving hardware (sensors + compute) / software combo. And perhaps lithium[2] ore extraction. I don't know enough about the technologies of solar pv to hazard a guess. If battery storage happens we definitely get electric vehicles (along with better laptops, tablets, and phones).
Wonder what city councils are going to do to supplement the revenue lost if and when income from parking spot use shrinks due to a combination of smaller fleets and individual cars in the fleet spending less time parked up.
Of the 4 exponentially improving technology clusters mentioned: battery storage, electric vehicles, self-driving hw/sw, solar pv -- I'm trying to imagine if any one of them might not ramp up within the 5 to 10 year time scale Tony is talking about. And I guess it would have to be the software[1] part of the self-driving hardware (sensors + compute) / software combo. And perhaps lithium[2] ore extraction. I don't know enough about the technologies of solar pv to hazard a guess. If battery storage happens we definitely get electric vehicles (along with better laptops, tablets, and phones).
[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/self-driving-car-engineer-nan...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Reserves