The future of the car industry
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.
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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.
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Wait 2 percent own their own vehicle? U serious? My family alone owns 4 vehicles & i see millions of private cars everyday
Huge opportunity! More pain!
Not much scenery…just piles of garbage and cows grazing in the garbage. Disgusting LOL!
UN Agenda 21/2030 Rothschild Enslavement Global Plan (Climate CON)… from you know… the boss of The Economist ?!
assholes now too lazy to drive?
india should have uber-cow
The way to make America ‘a auto industry stronger, is to end all the federal government regulations on our automobile industry.
nope
Definitely see the ride sharing trend in bigger cities quite interesting and I’m one of those 20 year olds that see a car as just a money sponge lol
so sad about the future of car industry
Young people cant afford a car and expensive expenses along with this
Only word I didnt understand was 200,000,000 trips a day in oven india. curious he didn’t say urban. aruban. We want cars than last 2 million miles. Batteries only do 1/3rd of that, they have to improve.
Why no videos on how this will impact the parking industry?
I will buy my own Honda civic someday… I prefer metro over Ola…
the hip hop lyft guy is soooooo cringy!!!!!!!!!! that sh*t is so lame.
i would like to take a ride with that lyft driver
Uber is just taking advantage of all the drivers by making them slaves of Uber tech ! Till the department of transportation will approve Uber’s autonomous vehicles then Uber gonna. Throw all the driver to the curd !!!
2:20, if you are wondering what language it is? #Kannada
Fast forward to December 2019, and Ford is struggling – what went wrong?
Why dont try a 200 year old technology that is almost free compared to these examples: Bikes and compact urban planning. But i guess it is not any money for the big companies in that vision for the future
Ford should have been researching societal trends for decades. They’re very late to the game.
i welcome the day when owning a car is not a need its a want only
As if Tesla doesn’t exist or something.
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.
The cab companies need to adapt and get an app
It is not the survival of the fittest. Rather survival of the adopter. On who who can adopt to the changing environment can only survive.
Anyone can design an app to service the need of travellers at the expence of the drivers. There Inlies the problem. If you were asked to work for a pay cut , would you…. now imagine being sacked & finding same new job for less money. Thats essentially the same as ola
Y we can drive cars today? Perhaps, because we have well made roads. Most of the cars today off road are useless. I suspect that we need to update our roads to fit the self driving concept. Then making self driving cars will be much more simple. If the road provides the energy – you don’t have to carry batteries, if the road provides all sorts of sensors and informs the car about all objects – you don’t need to carry so many computers with u.
Too bad Lyft got rid of the mustache.
What’s with all the pink`
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Old fashioned horsepower over this elitist view
好，好极。opening mind
Ewwwww grossss! Anyone alse who hates the idea of ride sharing and autonomous cars?
No mention of the trailblazer TESLA???? the Economist always goes with the dinosaurs….pathetic!
The internet shook the whole world.
3:20 The man is talking like it’s his idea! Bloody thief.
This is why ford is considering stop making small passenger cars. The only demand left will be commercial vehicles.Before smart phones , we would call our friends & family notifying them , I’m coming over. Now days online group chat iliminate that need with smart phones.
what’s the music in the background?
"people are happy when they see a lady driver"….cut to shots of the most unhappy looking men ever.
12:23 What if someone destroys the antenna while the car is speeding?
I think there cars sells will go down because Uber will be self driving.
Ford guy, all blah. More tech BS!!
VW is trying to sell at least one of their Diesel SUVs to every adult Indian. If they succeed the resources of our planet will get depleted within days. So I hope VW can be stopped from peddling their SUVs.
Analog players in a digital world
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.
I’ll be damned if some nasty-assed hipster is going to get in my car
Future of car industry with no Tesla ? Tesla is disrupting the ICE engines but no mention of it.
what a fuking joke convince the fools that not getting to own your own vehicle is great and so is living with parents and not having kids fukin greedy cocksuckers
These pitches make me sick. Do you eat food just for the nutrients? Why then you impose the idea that driving is just about reaching from point A to point B?