This article is Part 3 of a three-part series from an interview on the Forbes Futures in Focus podcast featuring Jesse Levinson, CTO and founder of Zoox.
podcast featuring Jesse Levinson, CTO and founder of Zoox. Prior installments covered topics such as the current state of the automobile industry, the importance of ground up design and some of the innovative features that method has enabled. In this installment Jesse discusses some of the dependencies and impact on cities that adopt Robo-Taxi technology. He also addresses some of the expected challenges.
Looking beyond America, which geographies do you see that by 2030–2032 might have comfortably adopted this idea from you?I would hope that, by 2032, most major urban areas across the world would have adopted this type of technology. Certainly we do have global aspirations. We’d love to bring our technology to many, many countries on many continents. That will take some time — we do have to actually get these vehicles built.
If you look at cab drivers, for example, they do discriminate based both on people’s appearances and on what parts of town they’re going to in order to pick people up. If you’re in one of the parts of the town that is a little bit less privileged and you’re looking for a safe way to get around the city at two in the morning, it can be really scary for folks, genuinely — to the point that people maybe make bad decisions or don’t go places.
Again, we’re not confused; this is not a panacea. It doesn’t solve everything for everyone, and any new technology creates some new challenges as well. We want to be very mindful of that, and respectful of all of the dynamics there. But overall we’re just tremendously excited about the way cities will evolve over the coming decades as a result of this type of technology being available.
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