I think there should be a big move into building a more improved train network. Your comute is made so much easier because it is passive and you can other things like read the paper or last minute touching up to work. Train tracks last a lot longer than roads which are being disproportionately damaged by large trucks, look up gross axle weight rating.
@nigelmckee305811 жыл бұрын
i think the most obvious and most easily implemented improvement we can make is to daisy chain cars together electronically, on my commute, i can see the traffic light go from red to green and back to red again without moving because of the reaction times and the time it takes to start moving your car - if we made the first car move at the same time as the last car, we would instantly eliminate a large proportion of the traffic problems =/
@spokehedz11 жыл бұрын
Way better solution: Better Mass Transit. Who cares if your commute is 3 hours if you can eat on the train, and not worry about insurance, gas, repairs, etc. Bikes work in fair-weather areas, but mass transit is way more efficient.
@evarobinsons11 жыл бұрын
Thanks, seriously
@Lifeisawheelie11 жыл бұрын
Why didn't he mention "automated cars can blast through a busy intersection at 100 mph, safely, if the infrastructure is fully automated"??
@beegum111 жыл бұрын
Much infrastructure is public owned or strongly regulated. Basically, we could probably link brick and mortar with something like simulation, link with GPS and use that for advice, just advice, for stuff like day or shift start times. Much like they use for skyscrapers but at larger scale and complexity. Using the system might get a huge discount on train fair if trains stay fuller in this new model.
@Meximagician11 жыл бұрын
Was anyone else thinking about Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex when he was talking about the smart vehicle network? Specifically the episode "Stand Alone: A Modest Rebellion -- ANDROID AND I".
@MagicOfDark11 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Dr Who episode where families spend entire life's on the road never getting to where they are going. Plus there was a monster in the center feeding on people, but I never imagined this could be a problem. The traffic jams, not the monster.
@thinkwithportal11 жыл бұрын
6.8 billion. How old is this video?
@JackMitchinson11 жыл бұрын
this is a brilliant idea, just don't let the Sim City developers have anything to do with it :')
@Lulu-in2wq11 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I did not want to hear his life story
@Cevans353511 жыл бұрын
Bill, would you please tell me "frankly"? Frankly, I'm not getting your message frankly enough.
@fathappy311 жыл бұрын
Well i live in denmark wich has one of the biggest biking communities in the world and i can tell you that there can even be traffic jams wilst biking. Also alot of people wont just leave the famili car to make everyone bike instead,
@dominicanfrankster11 жыл бұрын
Dammit. You beat me to it..
@Syeal711 жыл бұрын
I want to hear more about the Abu-Dhabi car thingy he mentioned...
@BoogsterSU211 жыл бұрын
In order to combat gridlock, we need to click on each road segment and upgrade them to a higher-density street!
@noxure11 жыл бұрын
He doesn't propose any structural solution himself. Even though he has that pretension, it just sounds like ordinary greenwashing to me. That we need more advanced transportation modes is obvious, but what really needs to change is us using transportation more effectively. Mobility it is freedom, but the mentality that you have to be physically available everywhere is not. It's old fashioned thinking. Freedom in this century is to be able to do anything from any location.
@tarcal8711 жыл бұрын
And why is it much lower?
@SAsgarters11 жыл бұрын
Yeah.
@thelledge111 жыл бұрын
A system of self driving cars it even better because it removes the human element of driving, which is the primary cause of traffic. Traffic is created by an increase in the amount of cars on the road and the interactions of the drivers. When one driver slows down it causes a chain reaction that slows down everyone else. This is human error and creates traffic that is far slower than it needs to be. This smart grid could be a stepping stone on the right path.
@anialator100000011 жыл бұрын
a big impact on traffic will be where we have computers start the cars movments when a light turns green. instead of relieing on the super long human reaction time. they will use the lightning fast computer reflexes to allow almost all the cars stopped at lights to start moving almost simotaniously, which can and will super size the number of cars that get through the lights in one go. ever have to wait more than 1 second after i light turned green before you could move, not anymore.
@Sagaepic11 жыл бұрын
It's not too clean, because it's a really hard effort to get the uranium, and most mines are in poor countries, with old wasteful machines.
@fuzzysock11 жыл бұрын
I mean that, comparatively speaking, the polluting outputs of nuclear energy are among the lowest of the highly efficient energy production method. I never said it was perfect; I just disagreed with rerikm's comment. Surely, you don't agree with rerikm's idiocy.
@friarhill11 жыл бұрын
though @rerikim admittedly seems not able to voice his/her concerns w/o being polemic (which might then again be due to the feeling of facing an unsurmountable prejudice against his/her cause), I still feel I have strengthen his position. Nuclear power from fission is NOT clean. The waste is not as visible and the threat not as viable as with smog, polluted water or toxic byproducts BUT it's still a lethal waste that we undersand even less than the above.
@AvihuTurzion11 жыл бұрын
We need Quantum Portals!
@JacobBassett11 жыл бұрын
they need to stop having ted talks given by persons that are not the innovators of the topics they present... he is a ceo... but not type that can give anything more than a vague plan... we deserve to have the time we dedicate to listening to new ideas be from those persons that are the most knowledgable and creative at tackling the issues! (elon musk)
@weaselwardance138011 жыл бұрын
The answer - hover cars. Like in the Fifth Element. Or just make owning your own vehicle extremely expensive through taxes and so on to make it unattractive until we have hover cars
@fuzzysock11 жыл бұрын
Whoa there pal. Nuclear energy is pretty darn clean. I don't know who crowned you the expert.
@eche149211 жыл бұрын
Funny how Elon Musk is light years ahead of all the generations of Ford innovation. Must be the physics background. The solution to global gridlock is not smarter cars, but fewer cars and smarter greener mass transportation. However, the latter contradicts Ford's need to mass manufacture and amass revenue. He also contradicted himself by offering a solution that does not address the need for more roads (routes) to accommodate more vehicles.
@Yuusou.11 жыл бұрын
0:20 gives the answer
@ridgoro11 жыл бұрын
wow, he didn't say anything I din't know already
@KingCrownism11 жыл бұрын
Tracking people online will soon include tracking people when their car is on the road. Who will manage the tracking system? In order to make his idea effective cars communicating with each other would have to pass this info back to central database.
@RobinDisengage11 жыл бұрын
I play simcity. I know the topic well.
@Eric.Morrison11 жыл бұрын
Really? "Literally" in your blood? So you have small automobiles floating throughout your circulatory system?
@moristar11 жыл бұрын
He might be a good guy, but I think his chief board let him speak only because now there is a hype for "green" technologies, so that's just one more sector for their market. It's profitable, so that's why they now work on it. I think they just counting their money and don't really care about environment.
@whereeveritgoes11 жыл бұрын
Or we can have jetpacks. Smaller, durable and fun and no traffic jams. When you crash with another jetpacker, a parachute will open and you won't die.
@ricklp1011 жыл бұрын
You know hes lying because he said he loved his 75 mustang, no one could love that car
@alistairfielden11 жыл бұрын
It really annoys me an electric car is not zero emissions. The electricity has to be produced and transmitted both with losses and emissions. Yes it's more efficient but there are still emissions. BTW nuclear plants are the safest greenest way to go.
@robertbrown270611 жыл бұрын
Nuclear energy is cleaner and on average safer than fossil fuels. the problem is that uranium is not a renewable resource, so it is helpful, but a temporary fix. That is unless we can use a different atom to cause that reaction which is renewable.
@albietbeck11 жыл бұрын
Because that produces no CO2?
@SkyrimHod11 жыл бұрын
Where we're going, we won't need roads.
@tarcal8711 жыл бұрын
Well that's why public transportation is there, but you can't take away the freedom of driving on your own. You can't just ban cars even if they are replaced by another system (public transportation only) Bikes are fine but it only works because there are few of them - and much more dangerous than an enclosed metal car. Cars will "always" be there, its form will change (won't have rubber tyres, petrol engines) and automated driverless cars will exist, too, but public transportation is the way
@MindlessTube11 жыл бұрын
Cars can not literally be in your blood!
@gunhatornie Жыл бұрын
Entirely are you joking?
@hoarfyt11 жыл бұрын
gotta get rid of sun asap then
@valdisxp111 жыл бұрын
6:30 cutting to the chaise
@hymao111 жыл бұрын
well people drink water, that doesn't mean that it's impossible to drown in it. CO2 is not bad, to much of it is bad.
@Rumdreg11 жыл бұрын
06:25 Skip all the personal story
@songkeat11 жыл бұрын
we need skynet!
@graceblocher72593 жыл бұрын
We need jetpacks
@friarhill11 жыл бұрын
Isn't this vid/talk all about changing our perspective and angle on things? Changing the way we go about solving a continouus "problem" or challenge of our time. Then why don't you accept that the way of the future might be decentralised power generation by a multitude of means and in many different places, instead of single power plants ever growing to meet our needs. In Europe we're working on conductor & storage technologies, so we will be able to get sunpower from the african deserts.
@The_SnowPixie11 жыл бұрын
Doctor Who! Flight enabled vans!
@Akoalawithshades11 жыл бұрын
solution: invent the matrix and hook up all old people to it so they use less energy and most importantly gets them off the road.
@GigaBoost11 жыл бұрын
sure is big commercial, downvoted.
@thenoticerofthe1311 жыл бұрын
evacuated tube transport.
@TPAwquDDPLHJAdddorvtXdrkDdbjzz11 жыл бұрын
Pay 100$ extra a month and We will calculate not the best but the very best route just for your car system.
@fuzzysock11 жыл бұрын
Listen. I did not say it did not have drawbacks, did I? Honestly, this is not a matter of opinion. That's the whole problem, you are just basing everything you say on your own opinion. I am not that fervent a supporter of nuclear power; its just that the evidence indicates that it is more clean than many other forms of power production. Opinion has nothing to do with anything.
@Aname-hk4bu Жыл бұрын
He only stole my career and data. My personal information and my personal data.
@ridgoro11 жыл бұрын
cars won't solve anything. building smart cities will
@nikbates2311 жыл бұрын
are you kidding me nuclear is not green...
@529edwin11 жыл бұрын
He wants more money
@wren172811 жыл бұрын
That really is horrible. Morally reprehensible even.
@qpwoeirutyalskdjfify11 жыл бұрын
frankly
@Rashik3011 жыл бұрын
I think this comment just made me dumber...
@eonstarglider421811 жыл бұрын
yep..rich people will have it even easier so what? what new
@6u6u7o11 жыл бұрын
You guys realize that THIS one WILL actually happen. It's innevitable. Scientists have been predicting this. Google will launch a system for independent driving. In 2015 30% of the U.S. Army will drive on cars that can move automatically and better than humans.
@JacobBassett11 жыл бұрын
get to the meat of your message... i hate it when they drone on
@SadDemon311 жыл бұрын
maybe :)
@ariadnasfantasy11 жыл бұрын
repeat
@Summzy42011 жыл бұрын
flying cars?
@DungeonFreak7911 жыл бұрын
This is a great talk, but I can't stand his breathing and mouth sounds. Incredibly distracting.
@megamastah11 жыл бұрын
A lot of talk with no real substance. Except for the Ford commercial.
@Niragan11 жыл бұрын
Full of bullshit. BUILD ELECTRIC CAR AND STOP WASTING YOUR MONEY ON GASOLINE CAR.
@eonstarglider421811 жыл бұрын
I'm not hating or homophobic but why is every male that speaks here gay?? just pondering
@mouhaahaahaa11 жыл бұрын
solution: do not let dying humans live an overpopulated world does not need weak offcomes
@zirbat1611 жыл бұрын
0:15 :)
@meadowsirl11 жыл бұрын
a whole lot of nothing. car companies have no interest in anything but sales. if you want sustainability you have to replace the entire concept of a market. no shortcuts.
@friarhill11 жыл бұрын
And please explain to me what you mean by "relatively clean" when you aren't counting nuclear reactors among the eco-friendly options (in which I agree ;D ). We're miles away from anything resembling working fusion reactors and haven't yet properly harnessed fission (will we ever be able to?) so how is that a quick fix? You're lying to yourself w/ this "bridge technology"-myth. Fukushima has shown us what overconfidentiality in techs can cost - no system is fail-safe and consequences are radical
@PeeHooo11 жыл бұрын
HAHA :D :D
@xVyae11 жыл бұрын
What the fuck. Solve the problem before you propose that we move on to another less important inconvenience. :/
@Projectblind11 жыл бұрын
Funny all this tech is already running in Israel... google waze app for iphone..