After Motivate's acquisition by Lyft, the system was renamed to Bay Wheels in June 2019 with Ford’s name removed from branding. Behind him an animation showed the city of today and the city of the future-gridlock morphed into free-flowing roads as space was removed from cars and given over to rapid transit, bike lanes, green space, and wider sidewalks.įields said there was a “wider range of transport solutions” out there, including bikesharing.įord later teamed up with Motivate of San Francisco to roll out the Ford Gobike bike sharing system in 2017.

In front of a giant screen at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena the Ford CEO said that cycling would play a big role in the cities of the future. Six years after Ford’s TED talk the then global CEO Mark Fields told attendees of the North American International Auto Show that his company was about mobility not just selling more cars. The answer to more cars is not to have more roads.” Back when Microsoft was the biggest name in technology, CEO Bill Gates leveled an attack on the auto industry: If carmakers were as innovative as computer. And our quality of life is going to be severely compromised. “The bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers. Frankly, four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam. And with that growth comes some severe practical problems, one of which is our transportation system simply won’t be able to deal with it.įord added: “It’s clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. And at that population level, our planet will be dealing with the limits of growth. '22 has been good one so far 2022 Parking At. You are part just under 45 million hits on these pictures.

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