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Hvad vil du bruge tiden på når rattet kan slippes?

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Udviklingen indenfor teknologi og kunstig intelligens er lynhurtig og viser sig nyttig indenfor flere og flere områder. Især bilindustrien konkurrerer om at tilbyde de spændende muligheder, der tegner sig. Snart bliver selvkørende biler ikke kun noget, vi ser i science fiction-film, men også ude på motorvejen!

I en artikel fra Jyllandsposten, kommenterer fremtidsforsker Liselotte Lyngsø på den voksende udvikling indenfor selvkørende biler.

 

Kør dine børn i skole og læs lektier med dem samtidigt

I manges tilfælde er det den letteste udvej at tage bilen, både på arbejde, når børnene skal køres i skole og til sport. Men tænk lige over, hvor meget tid vi ville have til overs, hvis vi ikke behøvede at køre bilen selv!

“Længere ude i fremtiden er bilsæderne måske vendt mod hinanden. Så man kan tale sammen, holde møder eller være sammen med familien. Det kan også være, at man kan tage en lur, når man kører sydpå.”

-Liselotte Lyngsø

 

De største bilproducenter er allerede i fuld gang med at udvikle selvkørende biler, som derudover også skal kunne forudsige trafik, undgå ulykker og opdage, hvis du falder i søvn bag rattet. Men hvordan skal det kunne lade sig gøre?

Idéen er, at “træne” bilen i at køre af sig selv. Simpelthen ved at indkode vaner og rutiner i den, så den langsomt bliver mere og mere intelligent. Har man for eksempel en strækning, som man kører ofte så er målet, at bilen, efter et par ture, vil kunne køre hele strækningen selv. Derudover vil den bruge algoritmer til at bestemme, hvad der er bedst for dig. Hen ad vejen vil bilen altså langsomt lære dig og dine præferencer at kende, og til sidst være skræddersyet lige præcist til dig og endda forudsige dine behov.

 

Læs hele artiklen om potentialet for kloge, selvkørende biler med Liselotte Lyngsø her.

The road to driverless cars

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How do we prepare for a future with driverless cars? Panel discussion on June 23. 2017 with reporter Ian Telfer.

Futurist Liselotte Lyngsø attended a panel discussion broadcasted on Radio New Zealand RNZ where the main focus was what a world with driverless cars is going to look like.

How will companies and countries prepare for the future, which is just around the corner? Driverless cars will be a significant changing factor for our view on technology. We have to be ready for achieving its full potential, by figuring out every detail that comes with it.

What opportunities will it bring us, and how will our society greet it? Can we redesign the vehicles in order to give the consumer the same feeling of control as if they were driving the car themselves? How will it affect people, that they won’t be able to, or won’t have to drive the car themselves?

Driverless cars creates the future for co-driving

Liselotte addresses co-driving as a possible scenario that is worth fighting for. Spontaneous co-driving in cars will allow os to expand our social lives. Suddenly, we’ll be able to make use of the time that we would normally use on driving alone from A to B. Driverless cars will allow us to catch up with friends, finish our last work meeting or connect with our families whilst being driven to our destinations. It will also create opportunity to socialize and network with a used-to-be stranger from our neighborhood.

“They don’t get road rage. They’re uniform and measured in their moral response. Maybe they’ll be better than we are.”

-Associate Professor, James Maclaurin.

Futurist Liselotte Lyngsø speaks about how we are going to make driving an online marketplace, like we’ve done with Airbnb. People will collect cars as a hobby. The public interest in nice designs, usability and the interest for the sexiness of the cars will continue to rise. People will expect to rent a car according to situation-based personal needs. Private car-ownership might be essential in order to ensure a continued flowering diversity within mobility.

Who will be in control of mobility?

The urgent and most important question to solve, is the question of who will be in control of mobility. As the driverless cars will be connected to the internet of things IOT – it could be at the national level, at the car manufactoring level or at the personal level. Listen to the broadcast and find out why we should integrate the driverless cars, and make up systems so that people will share and make it possible to reduce the numbers of cars on the road and eliminate the need for most of our current public transportation. You will also hear about how  the driver-less future might be a target for new ways of hacking and terrorism that needs to be dealt with.

Listen to the panel discussion here, and imagine the road to driverless cars with motoring journalist David Thomson, Ass. Professor James Maclaurin, CEO of the Ministry of Transport Andrew Jackson and  Futurist, Liselotte Lyngsø. On this link you can also read about the speakers on the panel.

The road ahead for Uber is car-pooling

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Ubers strongest selling-point In the nordic region will be to promote car-pooling.

Carpooling already accounts for 20% in the US – During his visit in Copenhagen this week, Liselotte Lyngso asked David Plouffe, VP Communication Manager at Uber and former Campaign Manager for Obama during the 2008 election about the Uber potential for democratising transport.

Watch the video below