Carmageddon is Coming
We’re on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruption in transport history
Pssstt… prefer listening to reading? You can get this article in podcast form , courtesy of good folks at The Frontier, right here.
An overlapping confluence of three different technological waves — the smartphone, the electric vehicle and artificial intelligence — have created the conditions for a technological disruption so profound it’s going to change almost everything about the way we move in modern society.
The first of the three waves is something most of us have already experienced: the ability to summon a car and a driver with your phone. Millions of people use ride sharing every day. When the CEO of the world’s biggest ride sharing company behaves like a dick and is forced to quit, it makes headline news around the world. Incidentally, now that Uber doesn’t have a CEO, COO, CTO or CFO we guess this is the closest it’s ever been to a self-driving car company? (nice one, Mariya Yao)
The second technological wave is the arrival of the electric vehicle. Tesla is now regularly valued as one of the planet’s 5…
