Is innovation in transport accelerating or is progress stagnating? It seems that both are popular themes, but how can they both be true?
SpaceX’s Earth to Earth travel, Hyperloop between cities, The Boring company’s 3D underground tunnels, Uber’s Air Taxi service; are these the future of transport, or just over-hyped fantasies? If any of these are going to be viable in the near future, then surely it would be obvious by now.
These technologies are supposed to be just a few years away, but can that really be true? Upcoming videos will explore the viability of these technologies, but first we need to understand how some people appear so certain that this tech is imminent, while others are adamant it will never work.
We must understand the Transport Innovation Paradox.
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as cars are used way more often by Uber & such platforms, & these platforms require the cars to be new, car builders are expecting their sales to raise with this transport revolution. there are nice articles written about it in good car websites, Visualpolitik (a geopolitics YT channel) even made a vid on it.
Very reminiscent of Taleb's black swans! I would have liked the inclusion of a discussion on the history and projections of demand for transport. You mention the trend of lowering cost of transportation, how does that affect demand? How elastic is that relationship? In any case great topic, it got me thinking..
Can't wait to see this channel blow up ! You're doing amazing job, it's going to happen quickly.
I don’t get why aren’t you much more popular. Your quality of content is amazing, and I hope more people will come to your channel.
I've just been through my Uber receipts from the past 8 months and it doesn't look much like a sharing economy to me. Just a more stealth way of taking. There's convergence alright. It's all happening at the top. We congratulate ourselves on giving every child from an impoverished African town an iPad yet most go without drinkable running water. I do applaud you on your fantastic content and delivery. Just feel the technology should be used without a profit motive
I really like your video, and cant wait for the next one!
Here is a quote from Jeff bezos about amazon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ98hGUe6FM&t=1237s
You can't predict the future, it emerge from different inventions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvskMHn0sqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16W7c0mb-rE
You are like Coldfusion, just better. You stand over the hype. Coldfusion stands in it
Great vids please don’t stop!
10:24 Example #1: World War II (research on weapons) lead to the creation of the rockets that went to the moon
the car analogy is bad, cars were made safer by doubling their weight,this isnt a straight improvement. electric cars wont beat combustion in this century
also the increase in satellites was beyond obvious to everyone sinse forever they are just too useful
omg you channel is soo good keep up the good work friend
Great vid man, good overview, got me thinking
Awesome, thanks for such a well made video!
What are your thoughts on high speed rail and i'm not referring to the hyperloop. And i really hope that ownership of vehicles don't go away cause i really want to go places in what i owned and bought. It all depends on the free market!
Good work dude. Hopefully you'll get a chance to collaborate with one of the big channels to get more exposure because you absolutely deserve it for information and quality of production. In the meantime I'll appreciate my boutique experience before you make it huge. 🙂
These are great! I just binged your entire vertical farming series!
Love it! Keep it coming!
In my maby 10 years on youtube I have never made a single comment. Brother, you do not know how lucky I feel finding this chanel.. You are putting out content with your original touch to it, which makes it so amazing to watch. When I saw how many subs you have I nearly fell down – Impossible I said! Putting so much effort, into editing, making a script, just taking so much information in and turning it into a great product. You are combining so many different details to make your video at this level. You just deserve millions of subs and if you keep up with this quality I feel like you'll be massive hit before 2021. Keep it up! Amazing, just amazing!
I liked the video but I'm not sure about you appearing in the video…
Hey YouTube algorithm.. here is good quality content. Notice Youtube.
Great work much appreciated. Love technology such as EVs but hate anything impinging on our personal freedom such as autonomous vehicles.
I don't think anyone suggests that all technological development is coming to a screeching halt. But the religiously optimistic ideas of everything going up, up, up, from computing to travel speed, to stocks and economy…. is hogwash.
The upcoming innovations are interesting, but sadly I think these are going to be disappointing in their arrival, and take decades before they're even viable.
The internal combustion engine is an example of a convergent technology, at the end of the 19th century steel became of high enough quality to withstand the pressures and temperatures of internal combustion. Also a better understanding of electromagnetism enabled the creation of spark plugs and magnetos, without which petroleum powered ICE's wouldn't be possible. Not essential but important for practical engines are lead-acid cell batteries and high power density start motors, which were developed around this time.
Just came across you work its great research and editing, only criticism is you could clam down with the music a bit.
Found this channel a few weeks ago and burned through the videos, thought it was a dead channel and was sad. Glad to see it's alive!
It seems like latency isn't necessarily speeding up at an accelerating rate, but throughput is increasing. As we increase the transport speed of total humans and total goods there is a huge economic impact. For example, if you wanted a niche item, decades ago it may have taken weeks of months to get in your hands. Today you can get it in 2 days on amazon prime.
Another factor is total transportation throughput vs cost of energy. As we get electric vehicles, we can see the the total cost of transportation for kg of weight is decreasing. You can travel much farther on the cost of electric potential energy than the cost of diesel fuel. Autonomous vehicles also reduces the cost of transportation, because it removes human labor and could potentially reduce traffic.
If you look at the speed of computers over the past several decades, the major speedup wasn't just because of increased transistor count. The main reasons for speedups were better utilization, such as pipe-lining, energy efficiency, intelligent scheduling algorithms in caches, etc. All these things helped speed up computer throughput by 50-100x. The same is happening to the transportation industry, so increasing the efficiency of transportation can give us that 10x-100x increase in transportation throughput even if total speeds per individual item stay the same.
Surprise upload! Love your sleek editing and graphics.
Things to watch out for in the future . . . For good . .. or bad reasons.
Robotics (broad scale)
AI
VR/AR
Nanotechnology 😛
Loved the video! It's really well done; you deserve more subs. If I may make a suggestion: you're green screen looks a bit amateurish. Maybe pick a static background?
This channel is great, I can't believe such interesting takes and high quality videos aren't more popular!
In my opinion there are 3 major questions to ask if you're pondering whether or not a technology/idea/product will take off (in descending order of importance):
1: What's the end goal/best case scenario for the technology – is it better than what already exists? (An unfortunately prominent example that fails in this question is the idea to put solar panels on roads/pavement, which is just stupid because their fixed angle towards the sun already makes the panels less efficient than regular tracking solar panels, even if all other issues aren't taken into consideration. A lot of modern transportation ideas actually fail in this question, too – because they're simply not appealing. Take Musks Boring Company for example, where the vision initially presented was basically just a metro for your car. Something that would only see fringe use even if everything worked out perfectly, because most of the time you simply don't wanna take your car with you if you take the metro.)
2: Is it scientifically possible to reach that end goal? (Sometimes a bit harder to judge, but you'd be surprised how many "innovations" get thrown out there that are just nonsense on a conceptual level, be it because they break the laws of thermodynamics or because simple oversights condemn them to a low efficiency like in the aforementioned example).
3: Is it economically feasible? (This is the hardest factor to judge – because it changes with time. Assessing economic viability usually involves looking at price trends and potential progress with materials & manufacturing techniques. If the technology is very appealing, it's safe to say that a lot of effort will be put into making it econmically viable, greatly increasing the chance it will eventually become reality.)
If all of these questions can be answered in a satisfactory manner it's a question of when rather than if. Unless an alternative idea comes around and takes the cake, that is.
Obviously these questions are pretty vague, but I think it's a good place to start your argument from and most importantly helps you recognize bad ideas when you see them.
I am genuinely looking forward to your patreon! I really want to support you and your awesome work 💖
I'm so glad this channel is back!
I'm telling friends about it and they don't believe such high quality videos are made by a channel that is not even at the millions of subs, hope to see you grow soon ^^
This is crazy good quality for the amount of subscribers you have, amazing!
Glad to see you back. Great research and script.
Very excited to call my autonomous car via my phone to take me to work
Ok but imagine like…. putting your schedule into a transport app and it just has an autonomous carpool pick you up in the morning and drop you off at the optimal times for everyone? Personalized public transport
Dude, you just made my Day, this Video had such an uplifting conotation to it and after all the bad news lately this is something that got my out of a little hole i had dug myself, awsome Video!
Found you recently and am happy for new stuff, lets go.