Transportation
innovation

Make wheels on a car turn 90 degrees to help
people be able to park their cars more easily
Source:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/308/
Approximately 8 minutes into the video.

Parallel parking using a fifth wheel
Source: http://www.ideaconnection.com/innovation-videos/103-fifth-wheel.html

Make cars lighter and simpler
“In the debate on fuels, one factor is overlooked –
at least, as Bruno Auvity from the Ecole
Polytechnique in Nantes in France sees it. Fuel
consumption could be lowered drastically if cars
were built to be both lighter and simpler. For a
long time now, new cars have become heavier
and heavier, and equipped with more and more
technical features. This has eaten up much of
their increased engine efficiency.”
Source
http://emagazine.credit-
suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&aoid=237759&WT.mc_id=In%20Focus%20I
nternational%2018.8.2008-237863 =EN

Source: http://www.smart.com/

Reduce the number of parts to make the
door opening-closing system
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0AUawbDGQ

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7957671.stm

Use powerful batteries
Sources
http://www.mindset.ch/
http://www.bestofswissweb.ch/shortlist

Make door opening system more cool
Source: http://www.salon-auto.ch/en/en-images/detail.php?idIndex=0&idContent=9771

Make the car sound like a concert hall
Source: http://www.bang-olufsen.com/aston-martin/beosound-dbs

Instead of thinking just automobile industry,
how about thinking across businesses and
Industries - renewing the way people get
from A to B?

Combined mobility:
Mobility CarSharing and railroad transportation
Source:http://www.mobility.ch/pages/index.cfm?srv=cms&pg=&dom=6&prub=526&rub=539

Share bicycles
Source: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0225_inventions/17.htm

Make cars swim
Source: Rinspeed sQuba http://www.rinspeed.com/

Make cars fly
Source:
Skycar.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7909034.stm
http://www.skycarexpedition.com/

Help people fly on the water
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snTqLQLpBA

Let passengers choose a seat themselves
when they get on the plane - just like on a train or bus.
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Add,-Subtract,-Differentiate&id=1245930

Make people listen to emergency instructions
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbR_0hGxfZI

Do open innovation across companies
\"In the automobile industry, each company does its own R&D.
Every innovation is patented before it ever reaches the public, which
may take five years for the improvements to be incorporated in an
actual car after they were originally developed. If the automobile
industry started taking on an open source development model with
sharing across companies and countries, the cost and prices would
eventually drop, innovation and development would speed up and
exceptional features would be shared across many makers and
models. The auto industry could finally come up with the safe, clean
energy car. The problem is that the car companies do not seem
likely to support something that they perceive could put them out of
business, even though this would not happen since nothing stops
them from developing on their own and incorporating developments
from their \"open design shop\" into their own products.\"
Source: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1481/1396