{"id":29536,"date":"2018-01-09T07:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29536"},"modified":"2018-01-09T07:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:52:55","slug":"is-peak-car-headed-for-senecas-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29536","title":{"rendered":"Is Peak Car Headed for Seneca\u2019s Cliff?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Peak Car Headed for Seneca\u2019s Cliff?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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This text follows my recent keynote at Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference<\/a>. The author thanks \u2028Seoul Design Foundation and @Seoul_gov\u00a0 for their invitation. I also thank XuanZheng Wang, professor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), for alerting me to the @Mobike developments.
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Two hundred people per second<\/em> now climb onto a dockless bike somewhere in China; the blue dots (above) denote transactions in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

Considering that dockless bike sharing platforms<\/a> were only launched two years ago, in 2015, this growth rate is remarkable.<\/p>\n

The biggest company, Mobike, already operates more than seven million bikes across over 160 cities globally \u2013 and a merger with its biggest rival<\/a>, Ofo, is in the offing.<\/p>\n

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For its US launch Mobike (above) has teamed up with AT&T for its networks. Qualcomm will make the GPS-enabled smart tags attached to each bike. And iPhone maker Foxconn will manufacture the actual bikes.<\/p>\n

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\nNegative side effects have accompanied this explosive growth, of course; entrances to subway stations, for example, have been blocked by piles of carelessly dumped bikes (above) .<\/p>\n

Beijing and\u00a0 Shanghai have banned the addition of more bikes until their users learn, or are compelled, to use designated parking areas. Wayward user behaviour may well be just a blip; penalties (and inventives) cxan easily be added to dockless bike software.<\/p>\n

When sharing platforms enable new relationships between people, goods, equipment, and spaces, the notion of mobility as a discrete economic sector no longer makes sense.<\/p>\n

News that Ikea is buying Task Rabbit<\/a> is further confirmation of this convergence<\/p>\n

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The bigger story now unfolding (above) seems to be one of system transformation \u2013 a peak-car tipping point \u2013 that\u2019s been slowly \u2018brewing\u2019 for a very long time.<\/p>\n

(I don\u2019t believe the concept of\u00a0 \u201cPersonal Era\u201d is a timely one \u2013 but I\u2019ll come to that in my next post).<\/p>\n

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Is Peak Car Headed for Seneca\u2019s Cliff? This text follows my recent keynote at Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference. The author thanks \u2028Seoul Design Foundation and @Seoul_gov\u00a0 for their invitation. I also thank XuanZheng Wang, professor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), for alerting me to the @Mobike developments. Two hundred people per second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14125,17838,8475,130,17837,17836,1776,3389,1263],"class_list":["post-29536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-bicycles","tag-bike-sharing","tag-cars","tag-china","tag-john-thackara","tag-peak-car","tag-seneca-cliff","tag-shanghai","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29537,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29536\/revisions\/29537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}