GM’s Christopher Borroni-Bird on the Future of Cars (Forbes)
In this excerpt from the “Transportation, Technology, and Retrofitting Cities”
session at Techonomy 2011, GM’s Director of Advanced Vehicle Concepts
Christopher Borroni-Bird discusses advances in automotive technology that will
redefine transportation in the 21st century. He begins by citing five
attributes that will enable cars to address the trends of urbanization and
aging—small, shared, electric, networked, autonomous. Cars already integrate
some of these features in impactful ways. Small, shared vehicles are easy to
park and maneuver in dense urban centers, and cut down on traffic and fuel
consumption. Electric vehicles produce zero emissions and encourage the use of
diverse energy sources. Borroni-Bird’s pet project at GM, the EN-V (electric,
networked vehicle), brings two key factors into the mix: it is capable of both
manual and autonomous operation and can be networked into a managed traffic
system.
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