The future of the car industry

Ride-hailing apps such as Uber, Ola and Lyft are not only challenging taxi drivers around the world, they are also disrupting the car industry as a whole as people prefer to hail a ride than buy their own set of wheels.

The Disrupters is an original series exploring how major industries—from music and cars to hospitality—are currently being disrupted by the latest wave of digital innovation. As well as enjoying privileged access into the world biggest tech start ups we show how industry giants respond when faced with such tech-driven innovation. Do they adapt—or die?

The name of Ola's founder and chief executive officer is spelled incorrectly in this video. It should be Bhavish Aggarwal. We are sorry for the error. June 1st, 2016.

[greenscore]

Great showcase of ride sharing technologies. The green economy gains momentum every time someone uses shared ridership and opts out of buying a vehicle...

Great video!

[Nooneaskedforthis]

nothing worse then having to listen to a hip hop trivia game when you are jsut trying to get somewhere

[ChindiChitranna]

2:20, if you are wondering what language it is? #Kannada

[nyc]

I appreciate the Ford CEO is trying to grapple with the future, and has a lot of product in his hair, but he transparently doesn't actually know much about young people. ("er, texting, playing video games..")

[eparkcommerce]

This video was really well made and I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for creating this!

[Peter-qcve]

Why no videos on how this will impact the parking industry?

[markops]

I like this kind of video. Not like a bunch of news just exaggerating the incident.

[danielgreen]

Good to see companies like Ford getting on board. It will speed up the development and transition to self driving cars dramatically.

[michaelanderson]

i welcome the day when owning a car is not a need its a want only

[zwip]

The guy from Ford is talking with big words just like Steve Ballmer, really clueless

[herpsenderpsen]

I'm very, very glad that the taxi industry has to come up with no innovations to survive. For too long have people payed too much for their rides, it's a shame.

[SMCful]

Oh God, I was driving home near dusk the other night and I seriously thought to myself the idea of driverless cars will be so much safer. First, you have to adjust your eyes to different light settings, I had to angle my head to deflect the glare from oncoming car lights, check my rear mirror, check my blindspots while changing lanes, slow down on the ridiculously dangerous curbs we have on Kiwi roads. This was while driving an automatic. You have even more going on with a manual. I think a society with highly skilled human drivers, if you prefer to use them, or using self driving cars if you like would be superb.

[and]

Fast forward to December 2019, and Ford is struggling - what went wrong?

[saltymonke]

a car with auto pilot function and auto parking ability is good when you want to go home but drunk or too tired to drive

[andreamai]

My problem with these “disruptive” techno, ogres is the exploitation of independent service providers for profit. This turns the technology companies into the slave drivers of society, while they do not invest in the service providers.

[ZhuJC]

Finer tuning of locations of living and working will save a lot of energy and time. Car sharing is a decent amendment of our loosely managed cities. Smart cities, citizen participation is the real power of the revolution, I think.

Google map hasn't offered any services like Esri, a spatial analysis tool/service, maybe that will rewrite the whole algorithms after enough data has been collected! Think car sharing, food delivering service as a big data companies, rather than a service provider.

[gp.gonzales]

12:23 What if someone destroys the antenna while the car is speeding?

[zwwwtzj]

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so hip

[antpowell]

Hey, the guy from Ford is such a hip cat daddio yeh really with the cool scene man.

[reginak]

what's the music in the background?