Personal Mobility Appliances
August 1st, 2008 by Vihar ShethPosted in Technology, Uncategorized
Bradley Berman, editor of hybridCARS, published an interesting commentary on Reuters yesterday called, “In 2018, expect personal mobility appliances“. The article is as much about technology as it is about perception. It’s short too, so please go read it, but here are some notable quotes:
- By 2018, the American love affair with the car will become platonic.
- Sure, you might still adore your car, but with the lusty “need for speed” tied up in gigahertz instead of get-up-and-go. Your car, reborn as a personal mobility appliance, will be more about what it can do, and less about stimulating your senses.
- The marketplace itself will go digital.
- The personal mobility appliance will zip along an increasingly networked roadway.
- John DeCicco, an automotive strategist at Environmental Defense, expects that some auto companies will cling to “traditional measures of mobility” — horsepower, size, and 4-wheel drive — while others will embrace the attributes of what he calls a “post-mobility” age: connectivity, entertainment, information, navigation, safety, and mobile workplace features.
I’ve imagined the future and it is beautiful. I hope to have a personal mobility appliance but also a jet pack, or an Iron Man suit if the price is right.
“Now on display at the Museum of Transportation: The last SUV ever built!”
Let’s make it happen. Here’s a start - Land Rover go boom!
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