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soon be dusty exhibits in museums or in the midst of change and that's our theme today are made from a to b. the mobility of the future it's good to have you with us well they're among the most popular passenger vehicles of the present s.u.v.s what began as a bare bones military vehicle the sport utility vehicle or s.u.v. is now one of the most popular set of wheels on the road today's versions may be better engineer than their predecessors they are still expensive large and not very economical critics say they clog up traffic include the air they are huge earner for the automobile industry just why are s.u.v.s so popular what is it that fascinates so many drivers my colleague common when you take a look. bigger

. all of the world's people are crazy about s.u.v.s. being used as a status signifiers. just the greatest feeling driving around in the flashy. other problems that they cause. they know you're. trying to. so let's get into gear and check what's behind the hype why is the world so obsessed with s.u.v.s. the full. 40 percent of all passenger vehicles sold worldwide are some form of s.u.v. that's more than twice as much as just 10 years ago it isn't. in india and the e.u. one in 3 new vehicles is an s.u.v.

in china it's even more and in the us it's almost one in 2. producer perspective it makes a lot of sense to produce as u.v. a car that looked like s.u.v.s because they're able to extract higher margins high profit margins than it will be not much more expensive to produce manufacture but they will be able to. like price like 4050 percent higher so car companies profit from the s.u.v. hype but that's only one side of the story because they wouldn't build them if people wouldn't buy them like crazy. when the s.u.v. boom started in the us he helped major car companies sell more of the. as a marketing consultant and if you ask him the secret as to why people are so attracted to s.u.v.s is rooted in our brain. to put it very

very simply our brain is made up of 3 different brains the cortex the limbic system and the reptilian brain constantly talk to each other but each of them has a different job. the cortex is responsible for wrestle thinking it helps us make decisions solve problems crunch numbers everything that's kind of complicated limbic system is all about emotions. and the brain is in charge of our most basic instincts that make sure we're breathing controls our sex drive and our fight or flight response s.u.v. is red. you know car bible and reproduction i'm stronger and more powerful than you i mean if you come with a little car and i have a b. s.u.v. and we crash. you're going to die and i'm just going to have to clean a little bit my s.u.v.

the media projecting this image that the world as never being so dangerous all 7 point one man you know earthquake has hit southern california is massive tropical cyclone triggered a tsunami militants have attacked the stock exchange building you want to be in this whole car when there is earthquake around you know you want to be an issue be that. the road building people to what. is known. as you vs appeal to our most basic instincts and scowl make us targets exactly those but of course s.u.v. drivers would never admit that they're just following their primal urges they give a more rational justification. and if you look at surveys as to why people are buying s.u.v.s many will say because they're safer and yes if you are in an s.u.v. and you crash with another car you are less likely to die. but s.u.v.s have

a pretty high center of gravity and that makes them prone to rolling over which is actually really dangerous and also kind of obvious. they know the reality is that the higher you are the more chance you have to roll over is more dangerous to have but it doesn't matter the rate so you don't brain so you feel stronger when you're on top of might be something like a lamb space so by the time most cars get taller imagine you're in a smaller car in fact big and you see all those higher car taller cars than you might be incentivized to get to pull a car to just do it right in and be like intimidated by other people. people who drive s.u.v.s want to feel safe even if that means putting other side risk the front bumper of many s.u.v.s for example are so high that today. more likely to suffer serious head or upper body injuries in a crash so s.u.v.

drivers are gaining something here at the expense of others and that's not just the case for road safety. board and more s.u.v.s in the fleet which means you have much leverage than the small cars and therefore they are higher yet they are all still 20 fuel i need them plenty more then you have to do it. the growing number of as you visas in fact the 2nd biggest cause for the rise in c o 2 emissions since 2010 ahead of heavy industry and aviation. emissions from other types of passenger vehicles actually went down over the same period. and all this is not really news to us we know s.u.v.s are bad for the environment but it's just too easy for us to brush aside these concerns. cortex things about

abstract and complicated things that way in the future like climate change and how we can prevent it our emotional limbic system however is more of a live in the moment kind of person and like self fleshy that brand new s.u.v. looks and wants to drive often it now and this instant gratification will often outweigh the distant an abstract concerns like climate change to tell me that the environment is going to be bad in 1520 years doesn't really connect with me i might be dead in 15 years or so you know so we have to make people realize. that was used today and what they can expect today as some consequences for that day. and people around the world are realizing that more and more that still doesn't stop more and more people from buying s.u.v.s or industries and up to a point but you wonder why do you have to come up with the time to go i mean you

have to talk about computing to damage it's got to be going to issue these that. i thought she. was going to let language me you didn't just. fold factors working into taking direction and like more efficient engines more electric vehicles for all sorts and more. and also short that this is probably. the villain creature soundly capable of rational thinking and yet why it's 2 like the very things that are bad for us. all right if cars can be seen as an extension of their owners egos what should we surmise about those who want to ride smaller more efficient electric like this little guy created out of sheer utility and definitely not sex appeal we sent our reporter milko schmidt to switzerland to talk to

a man whose vision of the future is much more practical and emotional. 0 emissions no accidents no traffic jams then getting from a to b. will be safe healthy and relaxed maybe. i'll give it a try. this is a prototype and hans-peter clip in there is testing it he teaches at the university of southern cal and in switzerland his work focuses on the future of mobility. oh why are you driving such a tiny car there's only room for 2 the range is small so why does it it's ok because that's the future. but i think we need them ability revolution i think they look at that and micro mobility a more intelligent use of cars cities and space is the only way to preserve mobility. what do tiny cars contribute to that.

only occupies one 3rd of a standard parking space that's one aspect another is that it's electrically powered so it's more sustainable and average car occupancy no days as $1.00 people and they can spend 93 percent of the time just standing around so this car is perfectly adequate for getting about in town. were bought instead if the whole thing would not have a better more ecological product although i don't even like sarin alternative but i live in the countryside so i have a long ride to what i see the future is intermodal and that is i'll take public transport sometimes take the car to transport stuff or go out with my children 1st electric scooters and other new things will come along they'll be a whole range of mobility solutions and tiny cars a one element. i think that.

drives like a toy car. so how will we be getting around a few years from now we're going to get one example so i want to go to berlin in the future we'll have apps on our full on the. platforms where you and your priorities efficiency cost sustainability. or the way you look at corresponding recommendations including an itinerary. that my smartphone will tell me where i have to go and when and which means of transport i'll be using refined it will deal with payments as well leading. them to says we should do away with combustion engines in cars and he's shared cars rather than own one. i have the impression that it's still a long way off people want to own their own cars and keep the cars they bought for

as long as possible 1015 or 20 years and they run on gasoline something that is your vision simply unrealistic it's you know. they'll always be some private ownership of cars but it's unthinkable to go to the entire planet with private cars even with everybody owning their own farts like in terms of climate protection out of the question. with. the coronavirus pandemic has seen people shift away from often crowded trains and buses and use their cars more but clearly been there is a champion of public transport as part of the mix is his vision already obsolete. the ultimately the industry was already going through a process of transformation into a covert 19 has led to a slump in sales so the question of change and reinvention so i'll just as increased dramatically. in the says electra mobility can be fun

it doesn't mean doing without all the good stuff as many people still seem to think he owns. says there's no way around it. or right of cars will look different in the future chances are they will also sound different a lot of us probably don't give it much thought but the noises a car makes matter not just for the gear heads love the sound of an engine revving for everyday safety if you can't hear it you might not know it's coming and that's why sound is being programmed into electric cars which are otherwise almost silent finding the right sound that's an art. for sound design there's combustion engine noises are as complex as symphony. and they provide the basis for developing artificial motor sounds for electric cars at present they sound like this. in between we're going to sit at the mating

call of a stack. of country or a tiger or whatever is not the chirping of a sparrow. office mature sound like that does something to a driver men are said to meet at your bellowing noise that signifies. time of greatest business buzzing sound 0 india doesn't have such an immediate and powerful impact but it could come to signify another kind of power that's expressive in its own right power. the challenge is to develop that power for electric cars. to move iti. decent. car dealer benyamin dad it says a timid buzz just doesn't do it for him he loves the full throated growl and roar of $500.00 horsepower. feeling. that's just part of it

for many people with. the big engine big sound great sound lights soft that means performance passion fun behind the wheel when everything good and exciting about driving as you head into the sunset in your sports car to move on and going fast. but how can a letter vehicles be fitted with a truly authentic sounding fake sound. in this we're going 151617 kilometers an hour the noise is minimal i'm going to tweak the sound quality. just boosted the higher frequencies. the new e.u. regulations says new electric cars will have to be equipped with an acoustic vehicle alerting system which makes a sound at low speed entering reversing. the. it's not that the e.u.

wants to make the world sound better and cooler for us all it's about safety you have to be able to hear if an electric car is just 10 meters away heading at you or 20 kilometers an hour. and the sound has to be distinctive and easy to hear this was fish cut out for one sound designer just want to shape the experience of those inside the car as well as outside it's also about branding. the spot i'm 50 years ago most eighties had a special distinctive sound and it had to do with the substance of because the sound was authentic just like i also came to stand for stability and safety those times are over now you can fake everything so you keep wondering does anything actually sound like what it really is. driving pleasure reliability safety and authenticity can assume to be designed to suggest all that.

well it does seem like everything can be imitated reproduced or faked these days and often quite convincingly or the battery or combustion engine cars still roll along roads but what if the entire journey were virtual a crowd of ours has decimated global terrorism there's one sector that stands to benefit from the pendennis and its associated travel bans are a virtual reality industry after all just because we can't travel doesn't mean we can't be transported. i think headfirst into the virtual world can we really go on a journey without travelling and how does it feel i'm giving it a try. i've always travelled as a reporter but i've also travelled a lot in my free time i've backpacked through asia and australia. and i'm starting

to get itchy feet again. but times have changed. i take a church to the id experts at the university of hamburg french dynaco runs a research group studying human computer interaction zz i'm going to take a trip in his virtual reality laboratory. to report to you at the touch of a button i can fly anywhere i desire automatically and. i'm back at the old as a rock formation in the australian outback. or. the view is incredible. but it's not australia i can't feel the hot wind or hear any animals. i travel to the all goes almost 20 years ago we spent many a night out in the open it was a journey outside of my comfort zone and one on never forget it was hot and not all

the animals were friendly you can ever have virtual experiences like that ok any. we mostly experience things with our eyes and ears you have no sense of touch or temperature here to include all the senses you'd need to wear special equipment like a davis suit data gloves and lots of cables that's not what we're aiming for and it's not really available yet anyway because it is but virtual reality does make more extreme traveling possible i can take a drive on the moon for example or i can climb mount everest things i could never do in real life. in the gaming industry as a cussing and shit virtual reality towards in one game well traveler my avatar randomly land somewhere on the planets my job is to figure out where i am.

and the tourism industry hardly uses virtual reality it's cool that it's dealing with other problems at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic and the other problems lie ahead technology is moving forward at a rapid pace many believe that in the not too distant future but will johnnie's will become competition for tourism in the real wild. in the next 5 jane or 20 years and we'll have virtual worlds that you won't be able to distinguish from real life at least in terms of sound insight as much so that means we'll have to develop a new sense to know if something's real or not exactly and it's interesting ethically i may always have to tell people that the reality is virtual reality and we're always having problems like that today i can't tell if the nooses fake or a photos have been retouched and we are technologies of the future will bring them to a whole new level. mixing up realities that won't happen to me it's easy for me to

tell that this johnny is virtual it's great but i feel sick now i need a break. sometimes your movement in the real world doesn't match what you're experiencing in the virtual world it can lead to a conflict of the senses you're visually experiencing something different than the body is and it can lead to feeling a bit queasy that was exciting but i'd rather travel in the real world this year i'm going to go on a bike tour it's good for the social distancing and good for the environment. and while we're talking about 2 wheelers what comes to mind when you think about a motorcycle rally burly men clad in leather you may be behind the times the fact is more and more women are heeding the call the open road and in recent decades they've carved out their own space for clubs rallies and group rides and with them their own market brands are beginning to take notice.

to buy one that's long been dominated by men. the fish is a women only event they want to break the stereotype. that's its money cannot win by monday and if your children partner at home call friends you haven't seen for a while get on your motorbike and head to pack for lads to do something that's just for you. for years ago make founded what's now europe's biggest women only motorbike festival petra lets. her aim was to get more women interested in money to bikes and to connect them with each other. for fun calling every year we see a handful of women who don't have motorbike licenses and 2 aren't into the scene and that they have a license and come by motorbike. and having an impact on the market since

2011 the number of women with motorbike licenses in germany alone has risen by around a quarter to almost 5000000. but still more than twice as many men have motorbike licenses the industry remains very male centric. it's difficult when you go into a store i wanted something for me with different sizes and i was kind of intimidated their only guys in the store there guys they don't like even talk to you or if i won the world with my friends. to introduce themselves to my friends but they don't even like shake my hand that's been in my home to see all awareness is growing and as a target group were taken more seriously but there's still a long way to. for the motorbike market gets more female friendly especially in terms of clothing so nothing since i've been snooping. in the past women were often

just used as decoration to sell much to buy. but that's changing slowly the industry is taking note women by kids are a force to be reckoned with. these women are born to be wild the global motorcycle market is writing high some 100000000000 euros in 2018 it's expected to keep growing and that's some part to women. 2 wheels 4 wheels big car or small louder quiets of transportation and travel is changing and we're getting from a to b. maybe the main objective will never be the only reason for getting behind the wheel or the handlebars we're glad that you came along for the ride today that's all for this week's made see you next time in the meantime to be sure to check us out on

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