The document discusses emerging trends and technologies that will transform mobility and transportation by 2050. It describes a future where high-speed space travel allows passengers to travel between major cities within an hour. Advances in vehicle connectivity, autonomy, electrification, and personalization are poised to disrupt transportation. New mobility services focused on the passenger experience will create a $7 trillion global economy by 2050 with nearly half of revenues generated in Asia.
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22. MBUX, the Mercedes-Benz
User Experience, is the
company's dashboard of the
future: two 12-inch LCDs.
MBUX debuts on the small A-
Class (but not in the US;
Americans are too chubby to
fit) and in 2019 on USA
Benzes.
23. What if your BMW dealer
doesn't have the model with
your favorite color leather or
dashboard trim? Slap on the
HTC Vive VR headset, grab
the clickable wand, and
examine the car inside and
out.
24. Amazon's Alexa is coming
to the dashboard. Toyota will
start offering the voice-
powered assistant in its
Entune 3.0 App Suite and
Lexus Enform App Suite 2.0
later this year. BMW, Ford,
and Hyundai previously
announced Alexa support.
25. Gentex, the huge maker of
rear-view mirrors, can
embed an iris scanner that
identifies you to the car. It
could even authenticate you
to the internet and allow, say,
vehicle-to-home or vehicle-to-
infrastructure transactions:
Voice-order a pizza and it's
delivered (maybe
autonomously) just as you get
home.
26. Byton is 2018's EV
prototype you maybe never
heard of, sort of like Farada
Future last year -- only Byton
is in a less-grandiose show
floor booth. The crossover
would have two battery sizes,
71 kWh for 250 miles of
driving or 95 kWh for 325
miles.
27. Nissan's B2V -- that's "brain
to vehicle" -- technology
reads brain waves, which
telegraph what the driver
wants to do 0.5 to 1.0
seconds before the driver's
hands or feet undertake the
action. Knowing that, the car
is ready for your next move.
Nissan says it's for driver-
driven cars (it's not self-
driving)