Fortune magazine predicts six changes to traffic travel next year

What impact will technology have on our way of travel and what will happen to our way of travel?

There is more than a month, we will enter 2018. Recently, the United States, "Fortune" magazine gives traffic forecast for 2018.

In 2018, what impact will technology have on our way of traveling, and what will happen to our way of traveling? With these questions, let's take a look at Fortune's forecast for 2018 travel.

Unmanned traffic accidents began to occur

Good progress has been made this year in the area of ​​pilotlessness, which Waymo said earlier this month will provide the public with a driverless car sharing service in the coming months, and the public will be able to ride in driverless vehicles through the car software.

While some progress has been made in driverless technology, unmanned vehicles have also been involved in traffic accidents, and as more unmanned vehicles are deployed, more can be expected to be heard in the future Accidents, after all, there are still some blind spots in driverless cars.

Super High Speed ​​Rail became a reality

Mentioned the super-high-speed rail, we may first think of the Musk's Hyperloop, its speed can reach more than 1,200 kilometers per hour, even faster than the average speed of a large aircraft now, and Musk will also super-high-speed rail said For the future "fifth mode of transport."

In addition to Musk's Hyperloop, several other companies and universities are involved in the field, and in the future, the super-high-speed rail will become a reality, carrying goods and people quickly moving to cities.

Pure electric car sales will be close to 1 million

Compared with the traditional fuel vehicles, electric vehicles have unique advantages in energy saving, environmental protection, maintenance, fuel costs, etc. It also makes more and more people plan or have already purchased electric vehicles.

Global car industry consultancy LMC Automotive believes that despite the unwillingness of the U.S. government to pave the way for the proliferation of electric vehicles, global demand for pure electric vehicles in 2018 is expected to soar 70% from 580,000 this year to nearly 1 million units .

Celebrities have to travel to space

Musk plans to bring humans into space is nothing new this year, he repeatedly said on Twitter this year that astronauts will be sent to the space station, and his Space X has been obtained from NASA to build spacecraft carrier astronauts to the International Space Station Contracts.

In addition, Richard Branson said he will be carrying passengers to space next year, and many are reported to be celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, Stephen Hawking, Justin Bieber and Katie Perry Already enrolled in Richard Branson's space day trip plan.

Tesla began to get involved in the field of flying cars

There is no doubt that flying cars are one of the most popular settings in science fiction movies compared to autopilot, and now we still have the dream of owning such a next generation of "transportation".

Some time ago, Uber and NASA signed a "space operations agreement" to jointly develop "unmanned traffic management system" to make their own flight car plan to take a step forward.In addition, access to Larry Page investment flights Car makers also plan to launch consumer-oriented vehicles by the end of the year, so many companies are building flying cars and believe that the futurist Musk will also join the battlefield of flying cars.

Uncoated bicycles will enter the United States

Although sharing bicycles is not a new concept, in recent years there has been a new model in China that is different from the traditional transportation system - the pileless sharing of bicycles, which rapidly spread to some European cities.

This more flexible "pile-free" system makes parking and use of bicycles easier and requires users to scan the QR code only once they are available. This approach is expected to make progress in the U.S. market by 2018, This trend is bound to attract a large number of new competitors.

Read Fortune magazine traffic travel forecast in 2018, what do you think will be achieved?

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