What Will the Dream Car of the Future Be Like? | Alex Koster | TED

Fasten your seat belt as software engineer Alex Koster takes us on a journey in what he calls the "software dream car" of the future. He breaks down how massive technological shifts are transforming the automotive industry and paints a vivid picture of where cars are headed -- from AI drivers to interiors and exteriors shaped by augmented and virtual reality.

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[MrQuestful]

I’m surprised that the problem he outlines initially is the fundamental of having a heavy thing move a few people, and his solution isn’t addressing weight or scale of vehicle at all, but is leaning into computational power to make us comfortable while we sit in traffic.

The solution seems apparent to me, we have to explore a different scale of machine, and build machines that do more with less. For the last 10 years I’ve used an e-bike as my primary mode of transit. Using a motor that is about the same size as my blender has made me question how much power we actually need in our vehicles. There’s a number of benefits to scaling down vehicles: it requires less power to move them, so we don’t need nearly as much battery. A modern electric vehicle uses anywhere from 60-100KwH battery to move at most 6 people, whereas an e-bike battery is typically .5-1kWH. That’s easily a design 10x more efficient in its use of power.
The biggest value to scaling down: it’s more nimble, and therefore quicker. E-bikes don’t reach the top speed that cars, but they can be deceptively much quicker navigating dense cities and suburbs.
We don’t need our cars to be catering to our every need, we need to rethink our power to weigh ratio and build less heavyweights and more featherweights.

[huntmachine]

If our future is to be driven by a computer in our cars then it would make more sense to just take the bus/train (where available) instead of paying $100K for our own VR Smart Bubble Car.

[yash]

10:29 ohkay, lemme share the real side:

* bloated software,
* locked down everything,
* advertisments everywhere.
* data collection and selling to 3rd parties
* locking you inside the car, or taking remote control of the car

[iamfinky]

The dream car of the future is a bus. Or a train. You know, working, functional and affordable public transport.

[Funnysterste]

The dream car of the future will be a bicycle.

[Talisker]

The companies always try to satisfy the customers seek for “user experience”: everything has to be satisfying. So in the future cars will be rolling amusement parks until the market likes autonomous car mobility to the cost of a bus ticket.

[abimyers]

Interesting talk, but a lot of this sounds not that great to me. For one thing Blade Runner is set in a dystopia; the original is one of my favourite films, but I don't *want* the future to look like that! Also why would I want to have virtual reality inside my car? I want to see where I'm going and experience the journey.

[shaunpatryck]

I'd hope it's the Judge from Dukes and Hazard. Perfect look, perfect car!

[DigitalXrisXros]

mr garrison already came up with a great solution its called " the IT bike"

[geraldcoffey]

If AI runs everything we may be able to do with out Politicians

[MegaWilderness]

You're completely wrong, what transport needs most is efficiency. Why spend that much on something you only spend 30mins in. These thing need to come to the home first.

[depro]

“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” - HG Wells

[DragonLong-vszf]

I fancy on Tesla car at the moment and I’ll choose them at the future.

[fabiocortivo]

The dream car of the future hopefully will be a push bike

[DangerAmbrose]

My dream is that in the future we will not need cars to move around.

[Telencephelon]

I fully agree with everything said, but how the h* did this get to be a TED video?

[Chicago]

Sure, it’s right around the corner, and it will be trouble free and very inexpensive to maintain or fix….in your dreams!

[ForAnAngel]

And how many millions of dollars will that dream car cost?

[travaller]

Nightmare... Glad I'm a boomer, & had a real experience re: 'actual' cars.

[jessemavis]

My future dream car is a rust pile waiting to revived, not A.i. "siri do a burnout" nah i want to put my foot down and burn rubber. Not wait for an A.i. to approve based off data points.