Mobility’s latest news #3

Here’s the latest weekly news about the carpool industry — July 14th to July 20th.

The future of mobility in India’s passenger-vehicle market

Traffic in India

India recently became the 6th greatest power of the world, and the Indian automobile industry is taking advantage of it by significantly increasing the number of cars to be produced by 2020. India is to be the world’s third-largest passenger-vehicle market by 2021. Check out this interesting article to know more about the future of mobility in India.

Is Ride Share the New LinkedIn?

Lisa Ann Markuson, who runs the company Haiku Guys & Gals, writes poems on the fly for drivers and other passengers to promote her business.

Ridesharing apps helps commuters to save money by sharing their itineraries with unknown people going around the same direction. This article by the New York Times highlights commuters’ stories when carpooling to work: some of them met their future investor while others got help from HR people to build a better résumé to get their dream jobs.

At Zify, we love this kind of special connection between people. We believe carpooling is fun and help to meet unique persons you wouldn’t have met otherwise.

How To Regulate Through the Coming Traffic Tsunami

With traffic we are reaching the point of chaos around the corner. Growth of cities, promise of autonomous traffic and growth of the sharing economy all contribute to a revolution that is escalating rapidly.

In this article by Sampo Hietanen, we learn more about the future of mobility. If we want to avoid a huge mess in our urban areas, we need to change our habits by sharing and collaborating with the help of local authorities. We don’t need more apps, there are already many of them out there: the technology is not of any help anymore.

The sharing economy: Cure or curse?

From mobility services to recycling applications, the sharing economy holds many promises.

Many apps and online services from different sectors have emerged from the sharing economy: hospitality, mobility, crowdfunding, reselling… but one question remains to be answered: should this new type of economy be regulated or no?

The article gives pros and cons to the question with different examples of companies across Europe (Airbnb, Skoda and Uber).

In my opinion, companies helping shared economy to grow are a good thing, especially for the social aspect of it: it helps people to connect and to create more social interactions in a world where we tend to constantly be on our phones, minding our own business.

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