1. The shared cars used by Autolib in Paris have conventional internal combustion engines, and are not designed for central cities where space is at a premium. Needed is a small, lightweight quite, electric vehicle that uses far less energy. That it folds to take up 1/3 the land when parked is an incredible advantage. That is designed specifically for shared use systems. The car he presents seems ideal

2. He talked about a 3-wheel vehicle that is easier to use by elderly and disabled people and others who would not normally use bikes. China is filled with 3-wheelers in bike lanes. He just takes it to the next logical step. I am not sure what your point is.

3. He talked about a single small space that can convert from living to work or party or guest sleeping spaces – so no need to have single purpose spaces. Seems like a great idea. I am not sure I would call these movable walls “robotic” – they are just movable walls – but it seems like an excellent idea and much needed in cities where condos and rents are beyond what most young people – the life blood of the city – can pay.

4. Constraining autonomous vehicles to fixed lanes as you suggest defeats the purpose. We already have fixed-route mass transit. We need vehicles for the areas that are not covered well by mass transit – exactly what the speaker is proposing.

5. I took this comment as shorthand for the need to new interfaces to control our environment. Yes indeed.

My suggestion to you: go back and listen carefully and objectively to the excellent talk. I suspect that you will be enlightened.

1. Rechargeable shared cars (done, eg autolib in Paris) that fold up, if you replace private transportation with shared cars, the space problem disappears.

2. “Persuasive Electric Vehicle” WTF? I can only hope that’s a typo! Anyway, since when are old
people invalid? Go to China and look at who’s on a bike. They’re pervasive.

3. Robotic walls are … idiotic. If you’ve ever actually lived in a small space you know that that space needs to be a shared space. Walls can be moved by robots, but the life enclosed in those walls cannot easily be compacted, unless it is empty. Anyway, go to a city where therw is little spaceand see the idiotic sorry robotic solutions that exist – nothing to study here, unless you like robots.

4. AEVITA ok we’re definitely going to need to think about autonomous cars in our lives. But if the cars are controlled tightly and restrained to “transit corridors”it should be possible to manage pedestrian access. Look to automated metro which solved this problem.

5. Any “future vision” that includes as a selling point “controlled from your cell phone” deserves to be ignored.