By Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder & CEO, Crowdsourcing Week. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2014. Join us at the next event: http://crowdsourcingweek.com/
A Cultural Shift to Sharing – The 6 D's of Transportation:
The true future of Uber is autonomous Cars. Today an UberX in Los Angeles costs me about $2 per mile. But the majority of the cost of my UberX ride is the driver in the front seat. Take out the driver and the cost drops 5 to 10-fold. So to summarize: Deceptive: While autonomous cars have been in a period of deceptive growth over the past 30 years, they are now poised for disruption. Disruptive: Every major car company is making investments and the value proposition of saved money, time and lives will drive disruptive change in the decade ahead. Dematerialization: Car ownership will begin to dematerialize as the cost per mile plummets and convenience skyrockets (Uber has already started that process). Why own a car when you can have access to a car (any car)? Plus, we'll have no cost of insurance, maintenance, repair, parking… Demonetization: As mentioned above, autonomous cars have the potential to drop the cost of transportation (per mile) by 10-fold. Add to this, no cost of acquiring the asset up front. It is true demonetization. Add to this a future of fully electric vehicles, and in the sunny parts of the world, transportation gets even cheaper. Democratization: Everyone will have access to autonomous vehicles, including those who previously couldn't drive: kids, senior citizens, disabled and the poorest among us.
In the crowded internet that we're living in,