is with glover raising the ground, breaking questions can going speed after life we are sitting, saving the world, 42. the answer to almost everything. start september 10th on dw, the, the per of the engine will one day be a relic of the past. the car world is going electric and it's going high tech. you see right now in the streets as well as the big auto shows which feature the latest and greatest and future mobility. because right now it's the entire world of transport, this transforming electric cars, electric bikes, self driving, taxis, even flying taxi's. well will begin today show with

a look at the market. for electric cars we're china is increasingly gaining ground . and then the not so distant future, we could all be riding around in driving those caps like these. they're already on the roadways in san francisco. also take a look at the tiny european nation of montenegro, spending big for plain old fashion road building. and when we think about the future, many of us picture images like these passengers racing through tubes at high speed, escaping traffic, jams, and flying taxis or underground tunnels. why have so few of these grand technicians actually come to fruition the future of how we get around? that's our focus on this episode of made. welcome as well. today, there are still more combustion engine cars than electric cars and the roadways. but things are changing. look at car crazy germany. volkswagen is the top seller battery powered cars here. according to recent government figures over 41000 new battery electric cars hit the roads from january to july of this year. just of 15 percent of them from volkswagen. then comes to as well. and then comes chinese car

makers, a group that's just finding is traction and could on see bigger companies as quest for market dominance. as sushi, 3 chinese col models all set to hit germany's roads, mostly electric because of course, in these days, affordability, here's the key for european customers. there's a big demand for these affordable cars. so now jim and comic is still dominate the domestic market. they also make up 40 percent of the vehicle market, but for how much longer, you know this, this, these days, the most modern battery technology to most know how is in china play single. all, all gem and comic is being driven out of the domestic market by the chinese rivals . chinese con manufacturer is all focusing on many electric city cause they do have a limited battery range, but it's enough for the city. this is because our research shows that the german

car owners drive an average of 40 kilometers a day. it takes 2 to v. as many electric cars have a battery range of 300 kilometers. so that's always striving. okay, so there's a huge demand for these cars for the whole, but off i'm so is it kind of what's a good launch? a chinese models cost 10 to 20 percent less then similarly, size german pounds. gina, they asked, he bought another china is the best that making batteries and views of the core of the electric car and the name and the chinese companies, including manufacturer of b, y d, have launched highly innovative vehicles. and i've got german carmakers very worried . so few german manufactures are making compact economy and then not necessarily making a versions of over models. why is gemini a giant of the automotive industry for so long falling behind winds of georgia conservative. it's off now to contend. if you look at german car companies,

the way they're still structured is that 99.9 percent of their r and d departments are made up of holes who engineers, who love mechanics love and body work whose background is in mechanical engineering . and they've never even heard of electrochemistry of the details of what to look for, can be no need to that. how the german con industry still relies on its reputation for superior engineering and build quality because i didn't understand no one strength of the automotive industry. and especially in germany, is that the competition means that it's improving. so we welcome the competition. we can stand up to it and we can master it the about the, you know, my strong rising to the challenge german luxury manufacturer. audi, for example, is seeking co operation with the chinese market lead a s a and see the chinese apparently technically ahead in the development of e,

cause the industry has benefit from billions and government subsidies. specific damian's tina as english phenomena. china is incredibly dynamic, whereas germany is moving at a snail's pace and listen to the german carmakers have to look beyond germany, to some extent was called some of them are already doing that and making their development departments more international done that's, that's getting them closer to the innovations happening within the market and you know, that's the only the don't, it doesn't matter. but at the same time, germany is looking to reduce its economic dependence on china. is an actual goes this isolationist policy towards china is least for the future of the german automotive industry. and recently for german industry, initially without china, we'll lose out on your experts predict that the chinese could establish themselves on the german market within 5 years. jim and common cause have a lot of catching up to do in the vehicle sector and need to become cheaper.

otherwise they'll find themselves squeeze down to the domestic market. that's alone . international ones to companies aren't just competing over batteries, but software connect ability, even console entertainment systems and over another technology. the ability for cars to drive themselves in san francisco, those efforts have taken a major step forward. the city is now allowing some driverless taxis on its roads. it's still controversial and there are still some kinks to be worked out or reporter janelle do. malone decided to give it a try. take a look. i know what you're thinking. yes, i have health insurance. driverless cars like this one or a common site here and famously tech friendly san francisco. but even here, there's a lot of debate as to whether the city is ready for them or whether they should even be here in the 1st place. to be sure the tech isn't perfect. the cars aren't always waiting where they're supposed to have

a habit of stopping when they get confused. walk in traffic. i don't know why there's one thing for regular drivers to be inconvenienced at quite another for emergency services to be effected. like when one of the cars crushed into a fire, residents had been divided on whether driverless vehicle should be allowed to. i called passengers for a fee 247 instead of just test providers within a limited time window. as for the companies, they say the cars will lead to fewer accidents. robo operators like huevo and cruise argue that eliminating human drivers from the equation next, passenger transport much safer because drivers can get drunk, tired or distracted while driving. the california public utilities commission for hours and hours of public comment. urging it to either vote for or against provo taxi vehicles. i take people tell me that that's not the end. it came rainbow and cruise the green lights and opponents are seen red,

especially drivers of traditional taxi. so we're here to say no, no to whoever jack sees, no to robo taxi they are met us. they stop unexpectedly. they actually have broken the law many times. we see them signal one way and then go another way. but for song the ruling, what sparkling you, sharon, do you have a not so it was a test writer whose organization has a partnership with wayne. she says that as a blind person, having no driver means having no one who can discriminate against her. i see nothing there, so i'm totally blind. it's black outline. i've been this way for 23 years. i have multiple sclerosis and it choked off my optic nurse. one of the things i found out with taxis and right here services, because i choose to have a guide dog to navigate the world, is they will leave me standing on the side of the street. and they will cancel rides even after they pull up. and they see the dog,

they don't want to have the dog in their vehicle. whereas here there's no opinion because there's no driver. when you're like good or you know that sudden stop it's made or you know, you feel people swerving and people hogging at you and not being able to see what's going on. i see it's fearful a really i've never had one fear sending in one of these. i just say that it's welcome to the future. but i'm tired, robo taxi. campaigners say straight rebels say it's a future that ignore the voices of san franciscans. the group is best known for st campaigns to disable ramo and cruise cars. hi, blocking their sensors with traffic cones. that's why this activism speaking to us once is identity withheld way. most specifically threatened to pursue vandalism charges, which we're pretty confident putting the toner who doesn't need any vandalism charges, but we are a bunch of individuals and they are backed by

a pretty massive company with very deep pockets and willingness to spend time in court. besides the real world experience, the car is new to improve comes out of cost to residents. there's definitely a tiny bit of data, a need for certain data conclusively, say if it's a for it, it's not. and then the only way to get there is through this kind of open experimentation . so why don't we, as residents of a city have had no say in being subject to this experimentation. another night. another right, the consultant mario, how good is a cheerleader for the technology, but acknowledges there's work best to do. i've heard from others and seen the videos of people writing in the cart and being attacked because it means somebody throwing here and the name of the box over the same doors and then throwing ems to bits of boxes on the route on the windshield and the cost stops,

so it is mullens where somebody is attacking the car. i want the car to drive me out of the the area and putting it at the safe side of the safety area and not stop in the middle of the me. i'm going on. continue drive, there's a question at the core of all this for all cities coming to grips with innovation. at what point should society decide that in perfect technology is safe enough to roll out on the amount scale that the benefits outweigh any unintended consequences? the normally seen innovation 3 stages. the 1st stage is an idea and innovation is really true and everyone loves about that. that's and doesn't take it seriously. second stages, people realize, oh my god, this is going to state you have to fight it because it's 1st handing out jobs for sending all the way of life. the 3rd one is just the technology is finally here. everyone accepted it, whether everyone is eventually going to accept the driverless cars is further down

the road that california authorities have chosen this path for the residence of san francisco. and people will have to reckon for the impact of their decisions or well, san francisco is trying to work out driverless cars. many parts of the world are just trying to accommodate normal traffic by building decent roads. like in montenegro. it's finally cut the ribbon on 41 kilometers of new highway, a project that connects to key trade routes out of china. and in fact, was financed by beijing to the tune of a whopping 800000000 euros. can montenegro afford to pay that money back? and if not, what then, of the it took 7 years to build, takes 30 minutes to drive and is 41 kilometers long, and cost a whopping $1000000000.00 euros. this highway through the mountains of montenegro was financed by chinese loans and built by

a chinese company that flew in chinese labours to do the work to put together the motorway is super from coal option to put going. so good. collaging is a popular summer destination and in winter it attracts sky tourist. the highway was completed a year ago and the town has since seen business boom. sales that this ice cream stand have tripled. are connected with other sounds. we have many tory, it's now we come here in the shores of time, and i think it's a good drivers pay of $3.00 and a half year old toll fee. at that rate, it will take a long time to cover the highways. 1000000000 euro price tag, but people here aren't worried, the watch will pay back the loan god willing.

but natasha cool. bunch of it is among those sounding the alarm. she works for an n g o that's critical of the project. she knows that the stretch of highway is a huge burden on the countries finances. we have income from the highway, which is a 9000000 of euro's annually. and we have a loan rate, which is for the half of the year. and it's about $40000000.00 euro, so it's obvious that we can cover the loan with what we have. and as we have to put this remaining money from the budget, the highway lead through the tara river canyon. there. natasha cal. bunch of which meets with a representative for local fishermen. the river used to the full of fish like this one. today the river is dead. since the highway was built, there's nothing to catch. the fish were killed by all the chemicals. the chinese workers would wash out their concrete mixers,

right in the river or not. so i mean, that clogged the fishes. gillis, so they could no longer breed even him over that there's nothing here was done the way it should have been excavated her from the bridge construction has been dumped all along the river, leaving baron piles of rubble full of steel parts. the water is clouded with debris. uh, basically this grey mode is coming from different excavations, but also coming from this the dump sites which have this flushing of sediments. and this is actually, we'll do the string of of a bed, but also by diversity at the highway operators office and pod godsa. there is no one to handle inquiries, and there is no plan to re naturalize the river. for search or nina, for yano,

vege has looked into the government's financial planning. she says the loan from china could jeopardize montenegro spit to join the e u. because accession requires that the national debt not exceed 60 percent of gross domestic product. court inflates around 70 percent of the g d p. so definitely want to go has very little fiscal buffers or no buffers left for 5 different reforms that can damage. it's a disco economy. there's not enough money to renew montenegrins crumbling infrastructure to finish 41 kilometers, stretch of highway ends in this gravel road. the chinese lenders are willing to supply more money to extend the highway, but that would be a big risk. if the government defaults on a loan payment state property could be seized, montenegro he's giving up on so that entity on, on some of the infrastructure projects. so if we are not bringing back the sources

which are needed for paying back the loan, then we will, we may stay with also some of the public infrastructure which is meaningful, like a energy for us to talk to a railways or a port with the 1st 41 kilometers of highway montenegro has made itself dependent on china to prevent that dependence from growing many saying that the, you know, needs to engage more strongly in the region. 41 kilometers of asphalt road may not sound like the future of mobility or topic for this episode. but the reality is that many solutions, the traffic or transport problems are actually quite mundane. they're not so flashy . so why is it that we're always awed by these flying taxi prototypes, driverless cars, or high speed tunnel projects? they may be cool, but perhaps a few more bike lanes and better mass transit would be more helpful. the

transportation issues are nothing new. if you think of just the modes of transportation throughout history, this going from you know, horse and buggy to rail, to ocean going, betsel, steam liners, air ships. so there's always been something new to try out that would solve some of the problems of the old and each one of those newest things has introduced its own a new problems. today's transportation mix is no exception. the biggest problem is that roughly a quarter of global energy related carbon emissions are linked to transport. but that's just one of many. many people have the experience of being stuck in traffic, and of course people don't like that. there's also the high cost of kind of owning a vehicle if you have to do that in order to get around. and unfortunately, you know, in many places, transit services are not always the most accessible. the most efficient, even the most affordable traffic jams are so universally hated that there's

a bunch of jokes and moves, little wonder that tech trains jump down to the transit bandwagon. big tech has reshape the economy and flashy hype, fuel presentation, no matter what their substance were key. and so instead of kind of really mundane things like invest in bosses and uh, you know, think about how we distribute street space and maybe make some cycle lane. it sounds a lot more attractive to say all the cars are going to start driving themselves, and we're going to make this new tunnel system for transportation. and we're going to have flying cars. finally, investors and media, laptop, high tech, exciting new transit projects. and the company you saw potential to people spend loads on transit in the us. for instance, 16 percent of household spending goes to transportation, 2nd only to housing. and while investors currently only have promises not results to go on, hasn't stopped them. for example, you're on muskets,

the boring company name that because they bore tunnels, get it, picked up $675000000.00 in private capital in 2022. local governments have also jumped on board. musk announced deals, promising to build underground tunnels for high speed travel in chicago and fort lauderdale in 2018 in 2021. the either have been built so the high train is rolling, the venture capital is blowing. everything is fine and dandy to a tech companies have to deliver on their spectacular promises. one of the most glaring examples of hyperlinks, a high speed above ground vacuum to popularized by mosque in 2013 and pursued by a number of firms billionaire richard branson, the owner of the virgin, also got it on the phone. in 2017 and a virgin hyper loop announced plans to build overground vacuum tubes that would hurdle people at 670 miles an hour across the us,

india in the middle east. but the closest these came to materializing was a single crude test in 2020, which reached about 100 miles an hour. far less than promised. costs were nearly $10.00 times higher and the test drive transported just to passengers instead of the promise $28.00. undeterred by the failure of his above ground travel project, musk opted to go underground with his boring come. first, the pledge to dig elaborate systems of tunnels under cities were autonomously dripping pods with 16 passengers would sit around with ease. that became a pledge to develop a system of so called skates, which would sweep electric cars across town at speeds of up to 130 miles an hour, which became a one way tunnel to drive the test was through at about 40 miles an hour called the loop, which at least exists, he sold the systems to a bunch of cities around the united states. and in most cases they have not materialized. and then the only place where it, where it has,

which is las vegas. it's a short tunnel that connects up the convention center, and it's mainly just and it's an attraction for has was, you know, it's a way to sell teslas. it's not really affecting traffic, it's not really solving transportation problems. it's really, i call it a disney land ride for it has a fence. western billionaires aren't the only ones with techs. that sounds more impressive than it looks. china is autonomous, real rapid transit. that's gotten heights for being a cheaper alternative to the standard trans and has been tested in guitar and australia. it's a quote unquote track what's tram system that traverse has roads and has a driver despite being called autonomy. that's right. pretty much a bus looks kind of cool, but not a transit revolution. if it feels like we're seeing a pattern here, it's because lots of these could be defined as gadget bonds. the transit term for an exciting new technology that's actually less useful than what it's meant to replace. and then there is the holy grail of sy fy playing cars. some companies

like jo be, are working on what they call electric vertical takeoff and landing cubicles or flying taxes. even the biggest luddites have to admit that these are cool, though they look more like fancy helicopters and flying cars. toby hopes to launch these fully electric vehicles in 2025. they should have a range of 150 miles per job expects the average trip to be around $25.00, meaning flying taxis with compliments not replace existing transport networks is and when use tech solutions materialize, they often bring with them their own set of regulatory costs and safety challenges or fail to solve some of the biggest transit issues. ideally, mass transit should serve the masses. that means recognizing it as a public good, something flashy private innovation distracts from. if we wanted to do it, we could have been making investments in transit service and investments. insight

plenty of the structure and doing, you know, other things in order to address these issues. instead of waiting for the tech industry to create solutions that were never actually going to solve anything in the 1st place. practical transits, solutions that encourage people to ditch private cars are often a bit boring. while the electric buses popping up all over the world are cool. there are no flying cars. and transit researchers might be the only people on the planet you think a bikes or sex. i have one right here in the background to tell i get the toward the they're pretty under stated, they're easy to maintain low cost. they enable quicker and longer bike trips without the cost of showing up. so i retired bikes, and buses are great, local transit solutions, but what makes them really shine is dedicated lands like boca tons of bus expressway is where amsterdam so expensive network of bike paths. and there's

always room for innovation, like emitting where cable cars help traverse densely built steep terrain. so it will take them much more than flashing animations to solve our traffic problems. let alone curb transits, climate impact, deep billions of venture capital in heaps of attention. these tech solutions garner would probably be better invested in truly boring, but more efficient, real solutions. maybe sometimes boring is better. and maybe the future of mobility is actually a mixture of new ideas with old ones that either haven't gotten enough attention or perhaps could be better developed. like the bicycle and invention that frankly seems to get better and better with time. maybe someone is working on a self driving bike right now, and when they roll it out, we'll show it to you here on me until then take care or

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