[Music]
can I see a big show of hands of all the
folks that actually hit traffic on the
way to the event tonight during their
daily commutes during the week how many
people love traffic well you’re not
alone because the people along the LA
405 here share your pain and the folks
here in the shanghai qi for a 50 lane
highway with thousands of vehicles stuck
in traffic known as the chinese
carpocalypse
they they feel your pain hey our pain
traffic has taken over our lives and
just last year us drivers spent over 300
billion wasted in fuel and in
productivity stuck in traffic at some
forty two hours some fourteen hundred
dollars per pass per vehicle on the road
and a whopping 1.9 billion gallons of
fuel consumed in traffic so not only is
traffic taking over our lives but it’s
killing our environment and that we’ve
got roughly 38 billion pounds of carbon
emissions being emitted into the
National Airspace System and into our
lungs for that matter because of traffic
it’s a huge problem and if you take our
problem and you put it in the context
the global urban environments and global
population growth what we’re looking at
is a doubling of population growth from
three point three to five billion a
doubling of number of vehicles on the
road which is a huge problem that
ultimately ends up in something we call
global gridlock we’re Bill Ford once
said it’s no long traffic is no longer
going to be a matter of inconvenience
but a matter of human welfare
we’re
people food and healthcare will have a
difficult time moving around if we don’t
do something different and I can think
of no better place than Detroit Michigan
then to innovate that next generation
solution because as we all know it was
Henry Ford that put the world on wheels
and what many people don’t know is that
he put the world on wings with the first
commercial airliner the Ford tri-motor
so there’s all kinds of new technology
like on-demand ride-sharing services
like uber and lyft that are making a
huge difference in reducing traffic and
congestion on the road by increasing the
utilization of vehicles on the road
reducing the number of cars on the road
and that’s a step in the right direction
and the automotives are doing a great
job of you know electrifying and going
into automation and connectivity so that
there are fewer traffic jams fewer
emissions fewer fatalities which is also
a step in the right direction but I
don’t want to talk to you about that
today what I want to talk to you about
something a little different
skipping traffic altogether and it’s not
flying cars and it’s not a super cool
idea called Hyperloop which I think they
should add Detroit to Toronto to
Montreal to the things so somebody
should start thinking about that and it
isn’t boring tunnels underground so we
can drop jump on Electric Slide and skip
traffic it I think it’s a brilliant idea
for colonizing Mars and the moon but
very expensive what I want to talk to
you about is electric vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft us nerds in the
business call Evy tolls and in a VTOL is
basically a giant drone that leverages a
distributed electric propulsion so that
we can essentially take off like a
helicopter fly like a plane and roughly
a thousand feet move a thousand pounds
of whatever 60 miles at 250 miles an
hour all on a single electric charge
imagine how much more you could get done
if you could just skip traffic
altogether I mean it’d be amazing and
the best part is is we can leverage
existing electric vehicle technology
that’s in production that’s used in cars
today because it’s physically and
mathematically possible we’ve done the
math
then you bring in high-performance
materials like that used in the Ford GT
and you look at the sensors and software
used in automated vehicles except it’s
so much easier to automate an aircraft
because we don’t have logs and kids on
skateboards and squirrels and cats and
dogs jumping in the way so well after
seven years of research and development
we came up with an aircraft system we
are now testing to perform a variety of
jobs from cargo and medevac calves evac
passenger mobility so that essentially
you can go from Los Angeles Airport to
the Staples Center in a third of the
time and by 2020 you’ll be able to mo be
from San Francisco to San Jose in 15
minutes for the price of an uberx ride
in fact it’s going to be cheaper for you
to do this than to drive your car now
I’ve been privileged in that I could own
an aircraft and I’ve been skipping
traffic for about a decade so while I’m
doing 200 miles an hour having options
of 15,000 airports the United States the
rest of the mass traveling public gets
about 150 options in the air right so
while I’m zooming around y’all are stuck
in traffic getting to that big airport
race into the the TSA line to sit in
more traffic get strip-searched just so
you have just enough time to run to the
gate like your heart’s gonna fall out of
your your body only to get on an
aircraft that’s been built 20-30 years
ago okay we’re premium seats in coach
now cost a little extra more and you’ve
got to buy water and snacks just to sit
in traffic again once you get to your
destination misery so after seven years
of research and development we are now
testing a vehicle that will move people
cargo between cities airports in suburbs
cleaner faster and safer than ever
before and it’s using stuff that already
exists that’s been designed and invented
here right here in the Motor City
and we start by connecting cities
airports and suburbs and then what we do
is we start connecting the 15,000
airports and we create sky ports so now
what we see is a complete economic shift
in performance not only locally but
nationally giving people a higher
quality of life and by 2030 we’re gonna
see millions of evie tolls moving things
and you’re like how are we gonna manage
that traffic well we do it guess what
using existing automotive vehicle
connected not ominous technology called
DSRC to sequence and separate traffic so
people can get places safely and
efficiently so you can drive less do
more and skip traffic to do whatever it
is that you want to do work more play
more family more whatever and I can
think of no better place on earth then
doing it right here in the Motor City I
hope you enjoyed the talk thank you
[Applause]
can I see a big show of hands of all the
folks that actually hit traffic on the
way to the event tonight during their
daily commutes during the week how many
people love traffic well you’re not
alone because the people along the LA
405 here share your pain and the folks
here in the shanghai qi for a 50 lane
highway with thousands of vehicles stuck
in traffic known as the chinese
carpocalypse
they they feel your pain hey our pain
traffic has taken over our lives and
just last year us drivers spent over 300
billion wasted in fuel and in
productivity stuck in traffic at some
forty two hours some fourteen hundred
dollars per pass per vehicle on the road
and a whopping 1.9 billion gallons of
fuel consumed in traffic so not only is
traffic taking over our lives but it’s
killing our environment and that we’ve
got roughly 38 billion pounds of carbon
emissions being emitted into the
National Airspace System and into our
lungs for that matter because of traffic
it’s a huge problem and if you take our
problem and you put it in the context
the global urban environments and global
population growth what we’re looking at
is a doubling of population growth from
three point three to five billion a
doubling of number of vehicles on the
road which is a huge problem that
ultimately ends up in something we call
global gridlock we’re Bill Ford once
said it’s no long traffic is no longer
going to be a matter of inconvenience
but a matter of human welfare
we’re
people food and healthcare will have a
difficult time moving around if we don’t
do something different and I can think
of no better place than Detroit Michigan
then to innovate that next generation
solution because as we all know it was
Henry Ford that put the world on wheels
and what many people don’t know is that
he put the world on wings with the first
commercial airliner the Ford tri-motor
so there’s all kinds of new technology
like on-demand ride-sharing services
like uber and lyft that are making a
huge difference in reducing traffic and
congestion on the road by increasing the
utilization of vehicles on the road
reducing the number of cars on the road
and that’s a step in the right direction
and the automotives are doing a great
job of you know electrifying and going
into automation and connectivity so that
there are fewer traffic jams fewer
emissions fewer fatalities which is also
a step in the right direction but I
don’t want to talk to you about that
today what I want to talk to you about
something a little different
skipping traffic altogether and it’s not
flying cars and it’s not a super cool
idea called Hyperloop which I think they
should add Detroit to Toronto to
Montreal to the things so somebody
should start thinking about that and it
isn’t boring tunnels underground so we
can drop jump on Electric Slide and skip
traffic it I think it’s a brilliant idea
for colonizing Mars and the moon but
very expensive what I want to talk to
you about is electric vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft us nerds in the
business call Evy tolls and in a VTOL is
basically a giant drone that leverages a
distributed electric propulsion so that
we can essentially take off like a
helicopter fly like a plane and roughly
a thousand feet move a thousand pounds
of whatever 60 miles at 250 miles an
hour all on a single electric charge
imagine how much more you could get done
if you could just skip traffic
altogether I mean it’d be amazing and
the best part is is we can leverage
existing electric vehicle technology
that’s in production that’s used in cars
today because it’s physically and
mathematically possible we’ve done the
math
then you bring in high-performance
materials like that used in the Ford GT
and you look at the sensors and software
used in automated vehicles except it’s
so much easier to automate an aircraft
because we don’t have logs and kids on
skateboards and squirrels and cats and
dogs jumping in the way so well after
seven years of research and development
we came up with an aircraft system we
are now testing to perform a variety of
jobs from cargo and medevac calves evac
passenger mobility so that essentially
you can go from Los Angeles Airport to
the Staples Center in a third of the
time and by 2020 you’ll be able to mo be
from San Francisco to San Jose in 15
minutes for the price of an uberx ride
in fact it’s going to be cheaper for you
to do this than to drive your car now
I’ve been privileged in that I could own
an aircraft and I’ve been skipping
traffic for about a decade so while I’m
doing 200 miles an hour having options
of 15,000 airports the United States the
rest of the mass traveling public gets
about 150 options in the air right so
while I’m zooming around y’all are stuck
in traffic getting to that big airport
race into the the TSA line to sit in
more traffic get strip-searched just so
you have just enough time to run to the
gate like your heart’s gonna fall out of
your your body only to get on an
aircraft that’s been built 20-30 years
ago okay we’re premium seats in coach
now cost a little extra more and you’ve
got to buy water and snacks just to sit
in traffic again once you get to your
destination misery so after seven years
of research and development we are now
testing a vehicle that will move people
cargo between cities airports in suburbs
cleaner faster and safer than ever
before and it’s using stuff that already
exists that’s been designed and invented
here right here in the Motor City
and we start by connecting cities
airports and suburbs and then what we do
is we start connecting the 15,000
airports and we create sky ports so now
what we see is a complete economic shift
in performance not only locally but
nationally giving people a higher
quality of life and by 2030 we’re gonna
see millions of evie tolls moving things
and you’re like how are we gonna manage
that traffic well we do it guess what
using existing automotive vehicle
connected not ominous technology called
DSRC to sequence and separate traffic so
people can get places safely and
efficiently so you can drive less do
more and skip traffic to do whatever it
is that you want to do work more play
more family more whatever and I can
think of no better place on earth then
doing it right here in the Motor City I
hope you enjoyed the talk thank you
[Applause]
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