Autonomous Transportation

My colleague Jon LeSage serves as editor and publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies. He also serves as Automotive Editor, Green Initiatives at Automotive Digest and writes for Autoblog Green. He describes himself as follows: I’m passionate about – obsessed! – with this burgeoning global industry that has huge geopolitical, environmental, energy, and economic issues hovering around it.

Here’s a piece which examines autonomous, electrified shared rides and robo-taxis, which he believes appear to be the most likely way that cultural transformation will be taking place.

Personally, I’m not convinced, largely because I don’t see the business model for the automakers, not to mention Big Oil.  There’s a reason we’re still driving cars that weigh 25 times as much as our bodies, and filling their tanks with dead dinosaurs; it’s spelled m-o-n-e-y.