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will begin today show with look at the market for electric cars where china is increasingly gaining ground and then the not so distant future we could all be riding around and 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. things are changing. look at car crazy germany, volkswagen. it's the top solar 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 carmakers. a group that's just finding is traction and could on see bigger companies as quest for market dominance. a sushi 3 chinese col models all set to hit germany's roads, mostly electric, 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 has still dominate the domestic market. they also make up 40 percent of the vehicle market, but so how much longer? you know, this, this, these days, the most modern battery technology to most know how is in china place to know how 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 what we're striving of. okay? so there's a huge demand for these cars, the whole, but off on zillow. is it kind of what's very good logic chinese models cost 10 to 20 percent less then similarly, size german cons. gina, they asked you 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 e commerce and then not necessarily making the versions of over models. why is gemini, a giant of the oldest motive industry for so long falling behind the 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 olds who engineers, who loves mechanics, including the lesson 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 policy. this is, i didn't understand one strength of the automotive industry, and especially in germany, is that we competition means that it's improving. and so we welcome the competition . we can stand up to it and we can master it about, you know, who am i from? rising to the challenge german luxury manufacturer. audi for example, is seeking co operation with the chinese market leader s a c. the chinese apparently technically ahead in the development of the e,

cause the industry has benefit from billions and government subsidies for 15 years . you know, as well interesting. i mean, i think they're trying to is incredibly dynamic. whereas germany is moving at a snail's pace and listen to the german car makers have to look beyond germany to some extent was called some of them are already doing that and making their development departments more international goodness. 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. still, 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 it's roads . it's still controversial and there are still some kinks to be worked out or portage and they'll 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, and they 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 service has 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 accident thing. you can't robo operators like huevo and cruise argue that eliminating human drivers from the equation mix 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 pick up provo, taxi vehicles. i take people tell me that the conferences and then it came rainbow and cruise the green lights and opponents are seen right. especially drivers of

traditional taxi. so we're here to say, no, no, it's a rhodes axis. no to robles axes, they are madness. they stop unexpectedly. they actually have broken the law many times. we. we see them signal one way and then go another way. but for a song the ruling was talking, 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. but 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 rights, your 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 edge and not being able to see what's going on. i see it's fearful. it 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 activist speaking to us once this identity withheld a waynesville has specifically certain to pursue vandalism charges, which i'm pretty confident putting the code on the who doesn't need any vandalism charges. but we are a bunch of individuals and they are backed by

a pretty massive company, would 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 kind of data need for certain data to conclusively say if it's safe for it, it's not. and then the only way to get there is through this kind of open experimentation . so we don't like the we as residents of the city have had no say in being subject to this experimentation. another night, another ride, 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 empty bits of boxes on the root,

on the windshield and the costs stops so it is mullens where somebody is attacking the car and i want the car to drive me out of the the area and put me at the safe side of the safety area and not stop in the middle of the me. i'm going on. i'm take the drive, there's a question at the core of all this for all cities coming to grips with innovation. what pointed society decided that in perfect technology is safe enough to roll out on a mouth 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 laughs 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 for sending 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 residents of san francisco. and people will have to reckon for the impact of their decisions. 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 big gang 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 heroes. this highway through the mountains of montenegro was financed by chinese loans and built by

a chinese company that flew in chinese laborers to do the work to put together the motorway is super from coal option to put going. so good. it's collaging, it's 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, 3, have money towards now. we come here in the shores of time, and i think is 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. $1000000000.00 euro price tax. but people here aren't worried. the watch will pay back the loan god willing,

but natasha co bunch of which 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 $9000000.00 of euro's annually, and we have a loan rate which is for the half of the year. and it's about 14000000 euro. so it's obvious that we can cover the loan with what we have. and it's, we have to put this remaining money from the budget. the highway leads through the tara river canyon. there. natasha coll, 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 on the same, and 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 foreign piles of rubble full of steel parts. the water is clouded with debris. basically, this grey mode is coming from different excavations, but also coming from this the dump sites which have this flushing of segments. and this is actually, we'll do the strength of, of a bed, but also by diversity at the highway operators office in pod godsa. there is no one to handle inquiries, and there is no plan to re naturalize the river. for searcher nina, if we on

a voyage, has looked into the government's financial planning. she says the loan from china could jeopardize montenegro spit to join the e u. because ex session requires that the national debt not exceed 60 percent of gross domestic product, court inflates around 70 percent of the gdp. so definitely want to go has very little fiscal buffers or no buffers left for, for the 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 is 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 all of some of the public infrastructure which is meaningful, like a energy infrastructure, 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 one day to not so flashy. so why is it that we're always awed by these flying taxi prototypes, driverless cars, or high speed tunnel projects? indeed, 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 is 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 st space and maybe make some cycle lane. it sounds a lot more attractive. the 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. second only to house. and while investors currently only have promises not results to go on, it's 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 in 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 musk in 2013 and pursued by a number of firms billionaire richard branson, the owner of the virgin, also got in on the fun 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, 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 in a in 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 got an hype 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 prem 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. we're 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 transit 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 who think the bikes are sexy. 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 sway or tired likes and busses are great local transit solutions. but what makes them really shine is dedicated lanes. like boca tons of bus expressway is where amsterdam extensive 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 problem. let alone curb transits, climate impact, deep billions of venture capital and sheep slip 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's 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

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