Статия на Economist за самодвижещите се коли
Все повече хора предпочитат да наемат коли отколкото да купуват. Технологичните фирми са по-добре позиционирани да печелят от това.
Гугъл за сега са водещи в самодвижещите се коли.
Кога се очаква самодвижещите се коли да се появат? 2018 както очаква Гугъл е прекалено оптимистично. По-реалистично е 2020-2025, като срокът се скъсява в сравнение с предишните очаквания за 2030.
Какво ще стане с продажбите на традиционните производители? Спад от 11 милиона на 3.8 милиона самодвижещи се.
Все повече хора предпочитат да наемат коли отколкото да купуват. Технологичните фирми са по-добре позиционирани да печелят от това.
First, some people who might hitherto have wanted to own a car may no longer do so, cancelling out the growth the motor industry might otherwise have expected from the rising middle classes in developing countries (see chart). Second, technology firms may be better placed than carmakers to develop and profit from the software that will underpin both automated driving and vehicle-sharing. Some of these firms may even manufacture cars of their own.
Membership of car clubs, which let people book by app for periods as short as 15 minutes, is growing by over 30% a year, according to Alix Partners, a consulting firm, and should hit 26m members worldwide by 2020.
Google remains the leading exponent of autonomous driving. Its robotics, drones and search engine all contribute expertise that helps to guide a driverless car down the road avoiding pedestrians, obstacles and other vehicles, using computing power and sophisticated software to interpret masses of data received both from the car’s on-board sensors and from external sources through wireless connections.
Кога се очаква самодвижещите се коли да се появат? 2018 както очаква Гугъл е прекалено оптимистично. По-реалистично е 2020-2025, като срокът се скъсява в сравнение с предишните очаквания за 2030.
So when will the fully autonomous car hit the showrooms? Google, whose cars have done 1.3m test miles (2.1m km) on public roads, once promised 2018, whereas most analysts reckoned the 2030s more plausible as carmakers introduced automated-driving features in stages. Now, Mr Fields is talking about autonomous cars being ready to roll by 2020. More conservative car bosses add five years.
Какво ще стане с продажбите на традиционните производители? Спад от 11 милиона на 3.8 милиона самодвижещи се.
The 11m or so annual sales of mass-market cars for personal ownership in America may be replaced by 3.8m sales of self-driving cars, either personally owned or part of taxi fleets, Barclays thinks.
Will the sign on the dashboard say Ford (powered by Google) or Google (powered by Ford)?
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