FUTURE OF TRANSPORT
Gridlock must die. Traffic must get smart. Autodrive has to be a thing. Beyond electric cars, here are our future transport options.
Over the speakers, it is announced that the train will be even more delayed. The crammed commuters sigh. On the roads, the long lines of cars are not moving. Honking and toxic exhaust gases fill the morning air in the city.
In the world’s most heavily trafficked cities, the average delay during the busiest hours of the evening is now 100+ %, i.e. the ride from work, that would normally take an hour without jams, takes two hours.
At the same time, the traffic volumes of the world are rising, and they are constantly increasing in big cities.
People’s wandering attention, slow response time, and tendency to overreact are often the factors causing traffic jams on the roads, and so, engineers are working on leaving the control of cars completely to reliable technology and intelligent software. COMPUTERS ARE NEW IN TRAFFIC Only 13 years ago, computer technology was still light years from being able to control a