he's not an option. i'm on and off the property or stuck in the spanish border area alongside other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w. . is this what the future of transportation looks like probably not and it's not a time soon but when today's inventors and visionaries look at the streets sidewalks highways and even agricultural land of the present they see vehicles that could 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 but they are still expensive large and not very economical and critics say they clog up traffic and pollute the air they are a 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 malta wrote a column on when to take a look. because . all of the world's people are crazy about as you've.

been used as a status signifiers. just the greatest feeling of driving around in the flesh. are the problems that they cause. they know here they're trying to man you. so let's get into gear and check what's behind the hives why is the world so obsessed with s.u.v.s. 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 to. produce a 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 sell it at 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. ok the car shrink 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 rational thinking it helps us make decisions solve problems crunch numbers everything that's kind of complicated limbic system is all about emotions. and the rentier and brain isn't charge of our most basic instincts it makes sure we have breathing controls our sex drive and our fight or flight response s.u.v. is red julia is a. car bible and reproduction i'm stronger bigger 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 being so dangerous all 7 point one magnitude earthquake has hit southern california as massive tropical cyclone

triggered a tsunami militants have attacked the stock exchange building you want to be a car when those of us work around you know you want to be an issue either. the road building or people. there's no. s.u.v.s appeal to our most basic instincts and scowl make us target 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. 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're in an s.u.v. and you crash with another car you're 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 brian as i feel stronger when you are on top of might be something like a lamb straight 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 polar cars than you might be incentivized to get to pull a car to just do it right then 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 bumpus off 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 the actual silt will only fuel any damn well. then you have. the growing number of as you visa's 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 would like sell fleshy that brand us 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'll be dead in 15 years so you know so we have to make people realize. that was used today and what they can experience today as some consequences for them today. and people around the world it's realizing that's more and more that still doesn't stop more and more people from buying s.u.v.s. and up to all that you want to do you have to come up with the time to go on the beach you have to talk about it you go putting them down yes. you going to should be sacked.

because she. doesn't do that i mean if you didn't just. fall back to work it into taking directions like more efficient engines more electricity growth but also worth more. and also short distances. we are the villain creatures on we capable of rational thinking and yet why it's to like the very things that are bad for us. all right if cars can be seen as an extension of their owner's 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 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 peter clip there is testing it he teaches at the university of san gallon 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 and micro mobility a more intelligent use of cars sitting in space is the only way to preserve mobility. what do tiny contribute to that. you know only occupies one 3rd of a standard parking space that's one aspect and another is that it's electrically

powered so it's more sustainable i don't think average car occupancy no days is $1.00 people and a car spends 93 percent of the time just standing around so this car is perfectly adequate for getting about in town. were bought instead in fact if this thing would not have a better more ecological product on i don't even like summer an alternative but i live in the countryside so i have a long ride into town but 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 plus electric scooters and other new things will come along or they'll be a whole range of mobility solutions and tiny cars a one element past. perfect that. has drives like a toy car. so how will we be getting

around a few years from now i'm basically 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. and when and where you'll get 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 use shared cars rather than own one. i have the impression that is still a long way off people want to own their own cars and keep the cars they've bought for as long as possible 1015 or 20 years. and they run on gasoline and it's your vision simply unrealistic if we don't always be some private ownership of cars but

it's unthinkable to go to the entire planet with private cars even with everybody owning the room and i go far 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 industry was already going through a process of transformation into a culvert 19 has led to a slump in sales so the question of change and reinvent himself just has 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 people. 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 noise is 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 designers 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. then being willing to consider the mating call of a stag. 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 the. time of greatest does this buzzing sound zen 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. disempower. car dealer benyamin davidge says a timid buzz just doesn't do it for him he loves the full throated growl and roar of 500 horsepower. feel good does it not matter too that's just part of it for many people with. big engine big sound great sound lights. 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 lector vehicles be fitted with a truly authentic sounding 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. a 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. oh and the sound has to be distinctive and easy to hear those fish cut out for one sound designers want to shape the experience of those inside a car as well as outside it's also about branding. the spot i'm 50 years ago most eighty's had a special distinctive sound and it had to do with the substance of the cars the sound was authentic just like it also came to stand for stability and safety those times over now you can fake everything so you keep wondering does anything actually sound like what it really is it's. driving pleasure reliability safety and authenticity canis don't be designed to suggest all that. well it does seem like everything can be imitated reproduced or fake these days and often quite convincingly other battery or combustion engine cars still roll along

roads but if the entire journey were virtual across a virus has decimated global terrorism there's one sector that stands to benefit from the pentagon and its associated travel bans are 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 it she feet again i wouldn't say that 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 i'm going to take a trip in his virtual reality laboratory. teleport at the touch of a button i can fly anywhere i desire automatically. crashed 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 be 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 i need

. to know 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 deva suit data gloves and lots of cables that's not what we're aiming for and it's not really available yet anyway because our own bodies but virtual reality does make more extreme travelling 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 engine virtual reality tools in one game well traveler my avatar randomly land somewhere on the planet my job is to figure out where i am. the tourism industry hardly uses virtual reality a tool but it's still in with other problems at the moment due to the coronavirus

pandemic and the other problems lie ahead technology is moving forward at every pace many believe that in the not too distant future but she will journeys will become competition for tourism in the real wild. night 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. it's interesting ethically i mean i always have to tell people that the reality is virtual real and we're always having problems like that today i can't tell if the nooses fake or a photos have been retouched envy our technologies of the future will bring that to a whole new level. mixing up realities that won't happen to me it's easy for me to tell that this journey 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 could lead to a conflict of the senses your visually experiencing something different than the body is and it can lead to a 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 till it's good for 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 with their own market friends are beginning to take notice. the well documented by one that's long been dominated by men. the fish is

a women only event they want to break the stereotype. that's it's my kindle and i must get over your children partner at home call friends you haven't seen for a while get on your motorbike and head to pet for lads to do something that's just for you. 4 years ago they were called make founded what's now europe's biggest women on the motorbike festival petra lets. her aim was to get more women interested in motorbikes and to connect them with each other. on call and every year we see a handful of women who don't have motorbike licenses and who aren't into the scene but they're not me touch her legs they have a license and come by motorbike home. 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 marked

a bike license and 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 wonder which would my friends. to introduce themselves to my friend but they don't even like shake my hand was the name i don't the self-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 for nothing since i've been snooping. in the past women were often just used as decoration to sell most to buy. but

that's changing slowly and 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 with some 100000000000 euros in 2018 it's expected to keep growing and that time some pot to women. 2 wheels for wheels big car or small louder quiets of transportation and travel is changing or 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 do be sure to check us out on twitter and facebook.

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this is the w.'s live from berlin the democratic party edges closer to the control of the u.s. senate reverends from the quince his senate race in the state of georgia on seating his republican rival. also claims victory in a 2nd tide run off with more results expected as counting was of course also coming on. the european commission approves the madonna of art scene against cold with 19 best. hope your of 2nd weapon against the disease will be a shot in the arm for the dog slow moving vaccination drives.

thanks for joining us is a big day in u.s. politics today and republican members of congress are preparing to challenge president elect joe biden's victory in a politically charged assault on tradition meanwhile in the state of georgia u.s. media projecting a win for democrats in their bid to take control of the senate the senate runoff elections have yet to be called officially but projections for democratic challenger raphael warnock ahead of incumbent. and the other contests democrat john claimed victory after taking a slim lead over republican david purging democrats need to win both sides to take control of the senate and help biden advance his agenda. if the result is confirmed democrats ruffled warnock would make history as the 1st black senator to be elected from the southern state. so i come before you tonight as

a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this is stored moment in america. could only happen here. we were told we couldn't when the selection. but tonight. we drew with hope. hard work and the people by our side. anything. is possible. the other correspondent all of us zelotes is in atlanta georgia and joins us now from there all about what's the state of play. well it very much looks like a democratic victory again hard to warn i guess you mentioned has been called winner by the us media john also of the other democratic candidate claimed victory himself he's receiving congress relations already from other big names of the democratic party the votes however are not still not fully counted as we speak so

counting is still underway and joe biden needs to win both senate seats here in order to be able to control the senate it really is the fate of his presidency that's here at stake if he wants to go on and undo donald trump's policies he needs to control the senate was already his story who's out and also georgia went blue in the presidential elections what does this race tell us about the political landscape in the u.s. . well a democrat thinks are changing in the united states and there are some estimates that suggesting that by 2025 the white majority will be gone and that is one of the reasons why i was elected as a president in the 1st place there is this subtle fear among some older why the voters especially in rural areas now the change we are witnessing happens especially in urban areas that is exactly why georgia went blue why georgia voted for the democrat see they decided also this is a runoff race you're between the 4 i should say senate candidates you're now

a rough feel were will be the 1st black senate of the history of georgia then you have the john also who is the son of the jewish immigrant of course that very well reflects the biden administration one of the most diverse ones in american history again but also worth pointing out that trump isn't it is not that we are still looking at a very divided country. but the same time u.s. congress prepares to certify the outcome of the presidential race what can we expect. well that is usually just a formality but a dozen republican senators plan to object that certification process in senate that is really an unprecedented move a bit to overturn the reelection results really anti-democratic move there are demonstrations underway at the same time in washington d.c. as we speak. people taking to the streets so none of that really has changes

chances off success joe biden is the elected president but of course it has the potential to stir up further chaos and confusion to all of us other than reporting from atlanta georgia. we stay in the u.s. and our u.s. bureau chief in a spoiler standing by in washington she's out a rally of trump's supporters that was going away all. right i mean just what just all of a just said he here in washington thousands and thousands of trump's supporters are gathering to support their president they're on his side saying these elections were rigged and i had to the chance to talk of some of them some from georgia has said no we won georgia and this again is also just fake news the reelections are stolen it's really amazing it's many many white americans but you're also as always

it ready see many asians their main take is we gonna support president trump we don't want him to leave the office and if the republican party keeps supporting the outcome that joe biden actually won the election the we want to start a new party so this is going to be very very difficult for the republican party to handle all those strong supporters who are gathering here and waiting for donald trump to speak any minute. in a spoiler washington the thank you. to some of the other stories making headlines around the world a british judge has denied bail to wiki leaks founder julian assange. blocking his extradition to the u.s. he's wanted on the espionage charges that the judge said there was sufficient grounds to believe that his sons would not turn up to court for pending u.s. appeal if he were released from prison. lawyers for

a woman due to be executed in the u.s. next week have filed a last minute play with president trump asking for clemency they say lisa montgomery was profoundly mentally ill when she committed murder in the 2004. mongomery would be the 1st female federal execution in decades ho. as well as new parliament has met for its 1st session leader nicolas maduro as united socialist party claimed one more than 92 percent of seats a month ago after the opposition parties led by one boycotted the elections they plan to maintain a parallel parliament joining. the european commission has now given final approval for use of madonna's covert 1000 vaccine in the e.u. it's the 2nd vaccine to get the green light after the biotech finds a job many hope but also speed up europe's coronavirus vaccination drives which

have called off to slow starts across many of the 27 member countries. to medan a vaccine requires 2 doses $28.00 days apart and was found to be 94 percent to 30 of in clinical trials the us canada and israel have all approved its use and the agency workers in california were among the 1st to get the shot. we have and that you would know like yeah so here is that being you know and all of the patients are doing a ph and it's kind of. a health care in this case for it why. don't the dern of vaccine and company name of based on modified r.n.a. it contains the genetic instructions to produce proteins with the coronaviruses telltale spikes preparing the immune system for an attack from the real virus. it's the 2nd such m.r.

in a vaccine following the german developed by own set fires a shot at the u.s. company mcdonough is just over 10 years old and hasn't released a single approved product now the company's share value is in the 10s of billions of dollars mcgurn is advantage it can be kept at normal freezer temperature making it easier to distribute than others which need colder storage its disadvantage it is expensive costing up to 10 times as much as other covert 19 vaccines. by giving mcdonough emergency approval the e.u. has unlocked the use of 80000000 doses preordered for its member states further vaccines are under review with the pandemic still raging the news is the shot in the arm that many a desperately waiting for. well you correspondent is standing by in brussels to 80000000 doses the 2nd vaccine approved in europe how fast can this be rolled out.

that's unclear gearhart now that it has the approval of course that is the key question but the problem is as it also has been with the pfizer biotech vaccine is the production cannot be sped up to meet demand the facility there in the united states says in the 1st 3 months of of this year it only expects to be able to make $125000000.00 doses in total only a fraction of those will be export and only a fraction of those will come to the european union so while it's good news in anything will help it's unclear how many doses will be headed to europe any time soon but the other important thing about this about this drug is that it can be stored at normal temperatures and that is going to speed up the transport and delivery once the doses do make it to europe we saw some very disappointing delays with the pfizer biotech vaccine because countries simply didn't have the transport and storage systems the ultra cold systems in place so the distance will be much

easier how much will this new vaccine then help speed up actual vaccinations in member countries that's up to 2 e.u. governments and they make their own decisions on that we've seen the dutch government start their vaccination program only today so for all of those people complaining in germany they're lucky they're not dutch governments make their own decisions after the e.u. approved the drug for use so that again will be up to the governments themselves but i would expect that all of this pressure all of this criticism is going to make them rethink their plans. turtle's you correspondent thank you very much police in hong kong have arrested 53 pro-democracy activists for allegedly violating the city's new national security lol it's the biggest crackdown since beijing imposed the controversial legislation last year the e.u. has called for the activists to be released and says it is considering further

sanctions on china. the dawn raids marked a sharp escalation of hong kong's crackdown on the opposition dozens of prominent pro-democracy campaigners were arrested at private homes law firms and media outlets. a former lawmaker lambchop teen recorded the moment police arrived at his house. the arrests have left some residents stunned. i think one thing justice. is still the country. i feel very unhappy and it seems that even during the pandemic the government can still do so many things to terrorize people. but beijing denied it was clamping down on dissidents. and someone in the normal rights and freedoms enjoyed by the hong kong people have not been affected what may be affected is the freedom of some

external forces and individuals to collude with each other to attempt to undermine china's stability and security or that when the engine that. the detainees stand accused of trying to overthrow the government after they held unofficial primaries last july to field candidates ahead of elections to hong kong's legislative council. under the one country 2 systems policy hong kong was given greater autonomy when it was handed back to china from britain in 1997 the agreement expires in 2047 but one pro-democracy activist told that beijing security law has rendered that agreement meaningless. all the arrests and all the crackdowns following the implementation of the law is actually a file ation of the protests saima british prime factorization and the basic law

itself so i'd say all the freedoms that i guarantee under the basic law and under international treaties are gone. activists are calling wednesday's sweeping arrests an attempt to further weaken the opposition and if the legislative elections scheduled for september. this is d.w. news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you george a democrat rafael warnock has won his u.s. senate race defeating the republican incumbent in a 2nd runoff election democrats also claim victory after securing a narrow lane over his with top of them what they thought health results will give president elect joe biden's policy control officer. that's it from the other news team of fun now but don't go away stephen visine has your business news update with an update on africa's top story that's all that stuff the short break and don't forget you can always get the latest news on our

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