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I hope that this sort of thing happens all over the world and not just in the first world. I live in Alicante Spain and things can sometimes get hairy here at times. I like your optimistic view.

It all sounds excellent, but in my lifetime?

I think that technology will be available or is already available to do this, but implementing it in the next five years is not realistic.

At our car rental agency we have a lot of demand to rent electric cars. But we or our competitors don’t have any electric cars. Main reason is luck of the infrastructure. It takes government sponsored or subsidized program to implement a citywide chain of electric charging stations.

Yes Nissan is coming up with a great electric car called Leaf http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/index which has decent range on single charge and Better Place http://www.betterplace.com/ has great initiatives that will bring us closer to the prediction in the video, but not in five years.

Well, that’s interesting, it can be variable is destroyed in Israel
Good idea
With something like writing on this site

If the world does not unite to ward off China and India developing the vast coal reserves of Afghanistan and Pakistan it won’t matter much what we do over to clean the planet. Since 2003 I have been e-mailing the world to make these two countries models for developing renewable energy systems.

those ideas you have mentioned above are great to listen, but how are we going to implement and achive success in overcoming all those problems. and what is the role of software in developing those systems.

wow!!!!!!!!!
these are the ultimate ideas i have ever heared about
these needed to be implemented in every city as soon as possible

Some good ideas! I’m just concerned about the personal privacy.
Crime and epedemic preventions are fine things but when all those informations needed for the prevention gets to the wrong hands, it can be catastrophal.
If we’ll not be carefull the state will turn into a Surveillance state before we even realize.
There has to be more than one, maybe 3 instances, that are controlling what the police (for example) is doing with that data.

And preventing crimes before they are commited is a very fine thing, but i hope you considered that one can’t punish oder judge the potential criminal. It’s great against amok runs and terrorism!

I agree with you on the others and support them. With those inventions our world will be one step closer to a good world. Then we’ll just have to help the other worlds, like the third world countries to reach at least some of this comfort we have!

The future city is a city with reduced car traffic. The way of doing this without charging high toll fees for entering into the city is by Trafikklogistikk. see my blog: http://trafikklogistikk.com, if you would like to develop this concept togeteher with me, please contact me on: knut@trafikklogistikk.com

regards
Knut
Norway

We are trying to speed your predictions in our Smarter, Safer Greener House Contest. DaVinci Quest has set as part of the criteria for winning our contst a reduction in both energy and water consumption as well as the ability of a home to receive a reverse 911 call by Wi-Fi.

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Disappointed in transportation vision for cities. Electric power makes some sense, but only in cities where pollution and noise are problems. There is much more to consider.

Where is the hard analysis of efficiency, and where are the instruments and sensors you tout in other areas? Cars take up valuable space in cities, resulting in not only congestion, but sprawl — both for wide roads and up to a third of the private land for parking. What about the empty seats in cars, while half the population don’t have their own cars? What about the health downsides of auto-dependency?

We need a system that makes every car stay moving (and productive) and has little unused internal space when it is. With GPS, we can track all vehicles, and tracking the use of spaces inside cars is not difficult, making all spaces/seats available for booking.

Carsharing now fills a niche for those who drive little; but second-gen version could allow one-way use and tracking of where each car will be parked, so that the reservation system knows its location(s) for the near future. Private ownership would be replaced as a result.

Carsharing should be merged with ridesharing, taxi, and car-rental, with transit-linking (via seat reservations) possible (”trans-seat”?)

Yes, private car ownership is wasteful, unnecessary, and ignores the stress and responsibilities of driving in an age where people want to be on-line/in-touch or able to read stuff constantly. The rich know that riding is better than driving, but the auto industry has exalted driving into something it isn’t.

You specialize in systems. Let’s see more systems thinking about how people and goods move, not just in cities, but between them.

Chris Bradshaw

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Nice but too naive and not forward thinking enough. All that in 5 years?? And not one scrap of evil applications? “Filling stations” for recharging cars is a very in-the-box idea. If there are windmills on buildings, that’ll mean electricity being made everywhere, not merely available everywhere (not that there’s much difference). So instead of filling stations, we’ll recharge cars constantly as they drive over recharge zones or hotspots, like those pads that can recharge a cell phone by simply resting it on the pad. And the mathematics for tracking outbreaks… seems a little naive to think corporations won’t also try very hard (and win battles) to use the information to track individuals.

@Ramachandran K The telecommuting point is a good one. When we were at the Transportation Breakout session of the NYC Smarter City Summit (see posts from October 1st-2nd), one of the participants made the point that most of what everyone was talking about involved the “supply side” of the transportation debate, but no one seemed to be talking about the “demand side.” In other words, how we could reduce the demand and strain on our transpotation infrastructure through things like telecommuting, flexible work hours, etc. I hadn’t thought about the effects of that on things like health care too, but as you point out, it IS, indeed a significant opportunity. IBM has something like 40% of it’s US workforce working outside of a traditional office (the majority of which are telecommuters). I wonder if there are any data points I could find that are relevant… stay tuned.

A smarter solution will be to enabling more people to telecommute for work, education and trade. When people do not move around or crowd around on place, naturally vehicle usage and possibility of disease spread would decrease. How can science & technology help individual people do all that they want sitting at one place and doing stuff online in secure manner is the biggest innovatiion for a smarter planet or smarter city….hmmm

how do we become part of this innovation?

This one is very good and I love it!
Hope this can come true soon!

With the economy in the tanks, are these things going to sponteneously appear? Perhaps Darwin really was right, at least as a techy. Or is this covered by Obamacare.

Love This!

Matti – yes, I can see how the police bit sounds like minority report! But I think it’s much more about understanding trends and situations, and quickly taking control of situations – as they are unfolding. And in understanding trends, law enforcement can understand what previously unforeseen factors lead to spikes in criminal activity and move resources to potential areas or situations to calm them before anything occurs. That’s probably as clear as mud. For a current-day example of this, see this video of stuff we’ve done in NYC. I think what we are talking about here is becoming more predictive and bringing this technology to many cities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wB9pctFv8

fascinating. the momentum is ramping up for the EVs nudging out polluting trucks and buses, for sure. the smart infrastructure in cities is another hill entirely, but I’m with Phil T., let’s be optimistic and save a spot for me!

Ooh! That last part with the pre-preventive crime detection sounds like Minority Report!

Awesome, I want to live there. Seems a bit optimistic for 5 years out, but I’m an optimist, so I dig it.

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