When cars would drive themselves the future would be more connected and smarter. An array of technologists, inventors, and car executives along with transit experts attended the conference at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Studios on Thursday.
According to Doug Newcomb, president and co-founder of the C3 Group, “Technology is transforming transportation in the same way it changed media, music, you name it.
While autonomous vehicles are the ultimate destination for cars’ transformation, there will be plenty of way points along the road — and interim ways for drivers to benefit from new technologies.
The accessibility and applicability of digital maps and data in today’s world have been talked by Monali Shah, the director of intelligent transportation. She said they will soon have a completely new level of newness in generating content for machine-controlled cars.
Managing Director of Autotech Ventures, Quin Garcia has claimed to park as tremendous problem. This is a reciprocal of the autonomous vehicles; it focused on that the more autonomy the more the problem diminishes. Auto tech has tracked 57 parking startups without finding a suitable investment, he said, “space is really crowded because it’s such a big and obvious problem, but it’s hard to achieve success outside of local regions.”
The conference ended with a “Debbie Downer” panel that looked at potential accidents and destructive consequences of self-driving cars.