A future beyond traffic gridlock - Bill Ford 

An ad for Ford on an educational channel. Cool.

I think there should be a big move into building a more improved train network. Your comute is made so much easier because it is passive and you can other things like read the paper or last minute touching up to work. Train tracks last a lot longer than roads which are being disproportionately damaged by large trucks, look up gross axle weight rating.

i think the most obvious and most easily implemented improvement we can make is to daisy chain cars together electronically, on my commute, i can see the traffic light go from red to green and back to red again without moving because of the reaction times and the time it takes to start moving your car - if we made the first car move at the same time as the last car, we would instantly eliminate a large proportion of the traffic problems =/

Why didn't he mention "automated cars can blast through a busy intersection at 100 mph, safely, if the infrastructure is fully automated"??

6.8 billion. How old is this video?

Much infrastructure is public owned or strongly regulated. Basically, we could probably link brick and mortar with something like simulation, link with GPS and use that for advice, just advice, for stuff like day or shift start times. Much like they use for skyscrapers but at larger scale and complexity. Using the system might get a huge discount on train fair if trains stay fuller in this new model.

Thanks, seriously

I want to hear more about the Abu-Dhabi car thingy he mentioned...

Was anyone else thinking about Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex when he was talking about the smart vehicle network? Specifically the episode "Stand Alone: A Modest Rebellion -- ANDROID AND I".

Reminds me of Dr Who episode where families spend entire life's on the road never getting to where they are going. Plus there was a monster in the center feeding on people, but I never imagined this could be a problem. The traffic jams, not the monster.

Nice video

Dammit. You beat me to it..

And why is it much lower?

In order to combat gridlock, we need to click on each road segment and upgrade them to a higher-density street!

this is a brilliant idea, just don't let the Sim City developers have anything to do with it :')

Well i live in denmark wich has one of the biggest biking communities in the world and i can tell you that there can even be traffic jams wilst biking. Also alot of people wont just leave the famili car to make everyone bike instead,

6:30 cutting to the chaise

Bill, would you please tell me "frankly"? Frankly, I'm not getting your message frankly enough.

Yeah.

We need Quantum Portals!

though @rerikim admittedly seems not able to voice his/her concerns w/o being polemic (which might then again be due to the feeling of facing an unsurmountable prejudice against his/her cause), I still feel I have strengthen his position. Nuclear power from fission is NOT clean. The waste is not as visible and the threat not as viable as with smog, polluted water or toxic byproducts BUT it's still a lethal waste that we undersand even less than the above.

Thank you so much I did not want to hear his life story

0:20 gives the answer

a big impact on traffic will be where we have computers start the cars movments when a light turns green. instead of relieing on the super long human reaction time. they will use the lightning fast computer reflexes to allow almost all the cars stopped at lights to start moving almost simotaniously, which can and will super size the number of cars that get through the lights in one go. ever have to wait more than 1 second after i light turned green before you could move, not anymore.

Way better solution: Better Mass Transit. Who cares if your commute is 3 hours if you can eat on the train, and not worry about insurance, gas, repairs, etc. Bikes work in fair-weather areas, but mass transit is way more efficient.

A system of self driving cars it even better because it removes the human element of driving, which is the primary cause of traffic. Traffic is created by an increase in the amount of cars on the road and the interactions of the drivers. When one driver slows down it causes a chain reaction that slows down everyone else. This is human error and creates traffic that is far slower than it needs to be. This smart grid could be a stepping stone on the right path.

wow, he didn't say anything I din't know already

I mean that, comparatively speaking, the polluting outputs of nuclear energy are among the lowest of the highly efficient energy production method. I never said it was perfect; I just disagreed with rerikm's comment. Surely, you don't agree with rerikm's idiocy.

we need skynet!

Tracking people online will soon include tracking people when their car is on the road. Who will manage the tracking system? In order to make his idea effective cars communicating with each other would have to pass this info back to central database.

Whoa there pal. Nuclear energy is pretty darn clean. I don't know who crowned you the expert.

I play simcity. I know the topic well.

Funny how Elon Musk is light years ahead of all the generations of Ford innovation. Must be the physics background. The solution to global gridlock is not smarter cars, but fewer cars and smarter greener mass transportation. However, the latter contradicts Ford's need to mass manufacture and amass revenue. He also contradicted himself by offering a solution that does not address the need for more roads (routes) to accommodate more vehicles.

06:25 Skip all the personal story

It's not too clean, because it's a really hard effort to get the uranium, and most mines are in poor countries, with old wasteful machines.

Because that produces no CO2?

maybe :)

gotta get rid of sun asap then

He doesn't propose any structural solution himself. Even though he has that pretension, it just sounds like ordinary greenwashing to me. That we need more advanced transportation modes is obvious, but what really needs to change is us using transportation more effectively. Mobility it is freedom, but the mentality that you have to be physically available everywhere is not. It's old fashioned thinking. Freedom in this century is to be able to do anything from any location.

The answer - hover cars. Like in the Fifth Element. Or just make owning your own vehicle extremely expensive through taxes and so on to make it unattractive until we have hover cars

Doctor Who! Flight enabled vans!

Really? "Literally" in your blood? So you have small automobiles floating throughout your circulatory system?

0:15 :)

frankly

You know hes lying because he said he loved his 75 mustang, no one could love that car

Cars can not literally be in your blood!

they need to stop having ted talks given by persons that are not the innovators of the topics they present... he is a ceo... but not type that can give anything more than a vague plan... we deserve to have the time we dedicate to listening to new ideas be from those persons that are the most knowledgable and creative at tackling the issues! (elon musk)

evacuated tube transport.

He might be a good guy, but I think his chief board let him speak only because now there is a hype for "green" technologies, so that's just one more sector for their market. It's profitable, so that's why they now work on it. I think they just counting their money and don't really care about environment.

Where we're going, we won't need roads.

Isn't this vid/talk all about changing our perspective and angle on things? Changing the way we go about solving a continouus "problem" or challenge of our time. Then why don't you accept that the way of the future might be decentralised power generation by a multitude of means and in many different places, instead of single power plants ever growing to meet our needs. In Europe we're working on conductor & storage technologies, so we will be able to get sunpower from the african deserts.

We need jetpacks

Nuclear energy is cleaner and on average safer than fossil fuels. the problem is that uranium is not a renewable resource, so it is helpful, but a temporary fix. That is unless we can use a different atom to cause that reaction which is renewable.

Or we can have jetpacks. Smaller, durable and fun and no traffic jams. When you crash with another jetpacker, a parachute will open and you won't die.

Well that's why public transportation is there, but you can't take away the freedom of driving on your own. You can't just ban cars even if they are replaced by another system (public transportation only) Bikes are fine but it only works because there are few of them - and much more dangerous than an enclosed metal car. Cars will "always" be there, its form will change (won't have rubber tyres, petrol engines) and automated driverless cars will exist, too, but public transportation is the way

It really annoys me an electric car is not zero emissions. The electricity has to be produced and transmitted both with losses and emissions. Yes it's more efficient but there are still emissions. BTW nuclear plants are the safest greenest way to go.

flying cars?

well people drink water, that doesn't mean that it's impossible to drown in it. CO2 is not bad, to much of it is bad.

Pay 100$ extra a month and We will calculate not the best but the very best route just for your car system.

He wants more money

solution: invent the matrix and hook up all old people to it so they use less energy and most importantly gets them off the road.

That really is horrible. Morally reprehensible even.

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This is a great talk, but I can't stand his breathing and mouth sounds. Incredibly distracting.

Entirely are you joking?

Push for motorcycles and lane-splitting - far far cheaper and more efficient than any of the ideas coming from Mr. Botox-Ford

A lot of talk with no real substance. Except for the Ford commercial.

Listen. I did not say it did not have drawbacks, did I? Honestly, this is not a matter of opinion. That's the whole problem, you are just basing everything you say on your own opinion. I am not that fervent a supporter of nuclear power; its just that the evidence indicates that it is more clean than many other forms of power production. Opinion has nothing to do with anything.

You guys realize that THIS one WILL actually happen. It's innevitable. Scientists have been predicting this. Google will launch a system for independent driving. In 2015 30% of the U.S. Army will drive on cars that can move automatically and better than humans.

HAHA :D :D

yep..rich people will have it even easier so what? what new

cars won't solve anything. building smart cities will

are you kidding me nuclear is not green...

He only stole my career and data. My personal information and my personal data.

get to the meat of your message... i hate it when they drone on

I think this comment just made me dumber...

And please explain to me what you mean by "relatively clean" when you aren't counting nuclear reactors among the eco-friendly options (in which I agree ;D ). We're miles away from anything resembling working fusion reactors and haven't yet properly harnessed fission (will we ever be able to?) so how is that a quick fix? You're lying to yourself w/ this "bridge technology"-myth. Fukushima has shown us what overconfidentiality in techs can cost - no system is fail-safe and consequences are radical

solution: do not let dying humans live an overpopulated world does not need weak offcomes

Funny all this tech is already running in Israel... google waze app for iphone..

sure is big commercial, downvoted.

a whole lot of nothing. car companies have no interest in anything but sales. if you want sustainability you have to replace the entire concept of a market. no shortcuts.

I'm not hating or homophobic but why is every male that speaks here gay?? just pondering

What the fuck. Solve the problem before you propose that we move on to another less important inconvenience. :/

Full of bullshit. BUILD ELECTRIC CAR AND STOP WASTING YOUR MONEY ON GASOLINE CAR.