As cars become electrified and connected, there’s another debate emerging. Once vehicles can reliably drive autonomously at Level 5, should we continue to own them? Some visions of the Smart City of the future foresee public transport and self-driving taxi services as taking over personal car ownership entirely. But when I talked to Youngcho Chi, President and Chief Innovation Officer at Hyundai Motor Group (HMG), he still thought there would be many people with cars in their driveways for years to come.
Chi has been presenting HMG’s vision for the Smart City at the 2022 World Cities Summit in Singapore. “The idea was to revitalize cities by redefining urban boundaries,” says Chi. “We envision a city that’s human centered. It exists alongside nature, and it embraces future technology. It’s a hexagonally shaped city with a human center, the surface layer, and space underground, which is where functions are centered. A road infrastructure connects the city through autonomous mobility and logistics. The city is further enabled by advanced urban air mobility and hydrogen fuel cell generators, which not only makes it well connected, but also more sustainable.”
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