Published inPredict·Oct 13Silicon Valley’s Biggest Challenge YetThe Car itself as Enabler of Assisted and Automated Drive. If carmakers don’t bring a more suitable ‘rolling platform’… Silicon Valley should. The power of losing weight and girth. How? By presenting a more suitable platform for all the detection and scanning hardware, the software, incl. processing algorithms that ADAS…Silicon Valley6 min readSilicon Valley6 min read
Published inPredict·Aug 3Blueprint for a Green CarIn personal mobility, we need a similar revolution as what transformed and propelled personal communication. Question is how to combine, fuse what is inevitable (reduce a car’s eco-footprint) and what’s pleasurable/practical. Former Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs used to say: “design is not just what it looks like, it’s…Electric Vehicles6 min readElectric Vehicles6 min read
Published inPredict·Aug 3‘Flying Cars’: is the sky the limit?Or do more ‘earthly matters’ like real estate and the logistics of personal transit determine their success? What can aerial vehicle developers learn from NASA’s modular approach to space travel? What goes up, needs to come down… and disperse. — Aerial vehicles of the eVTOL kind (vertical takeoff & landing electrically propelled) are hot. The big question is whether city councils and regulatory authorities will facilitate this exciting, new transit mode. They might where eVTOLs pose the least risk and hindrance, typically over a low-density built area. Reality is that…Urban Air Mobility6 min readUrban Air Mobility6 min read
Published inPredict·May 18Rethinking how things ought to work, should lead to a reformat of productsIf it lacks common sense, hi-tech might as well be Alchemy 2.0. Hi-tech tends to rearrange reality according to its own desired image. Great example: self-driving vehicles. If traffic’s innate complexity and fluidity can’t be tackled, then traffic itself and infrastructure need to be rearranged, is what developers are pushing…High Tech5 min readHigh Tech5 min read
Nov 8, 2022Links to my pdf publicationsSince a lot of times emails I sent with pdf attachments and links get lost, I decided to put the most important pdf’s here. Click on underlined words to access them. How we can make a huge difference. Climate Change challenges us to reduce vehicle footprint and mass without sacrificing…3 min read3 min read
Sep 30, 2022MAGA Crowd Crowds Florida Beach58116Phillip T StephensCurious if the Great White was swept ashore...Curious if the Great White was swept ashore...1 min read1 min read
Aug 22, 2021Self-driving development is a Twilight Zone we can’t seem to get out of…Define ‘Twilight Zone’ — it’s a situation or conceptual area, that’s characterized by being undefined, intermediate, or mysterious. Sounds familiar? …Self Driving Cars4 min readSelf Driving Cars4 min read
Feb 20, 2021Trump’s Financial Downfall Has Begun4.1K56Caren WhiteTrump will likely use the rich donations he received for continuing the election fight and prepare…Trump will likely use the rich donations he received for continuing the election fight and prepare for 2024. Like Steve Bannon took advantage of the funds meant for building a wall.1 min read1 min read
Mar 18, 2020When a product succeeds in mixing what’s needed with what’s desired…Exception to the rule? Ask yourself if the world would have known the smartphone, in its very specific shape (product format) of a sleek, black tile with rounded edges, it it weren’t for Steve Jobs. Maybe later, in a different form? …Steve Jobs2 min readSteve Jobs2 min read
Mar 18, 2020Guess what… Your kid will still need to get a driver licenseEver realized that before you can expect autonomous cars (AVs) to take over, you will at least need to phase out conventional, manually operated cars, and probably need overlaying grid control? All of this is at least ten years away yet, if ever. Self-driving vehicles will be limited to campuses…Autonomous Cars2 min readAutonomous Cars2 min read
