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Hands up, who"s getting a bit bored of autonomous, sharable pod things? Seems like everyone"s doing them from bicycle manufacturers to flat-pack furniture makers. At least Bosch, the latest company to share its vision of "a new kind of mobility" knows something about cars. While it doesn"t actually build them, it"s one of the biggest suppliers in the business. Your own car probably has a few Bosch bits hidden beneath the surface. And without them, it probably wouldn"t work. The company"s concept shuttle is heading to next year"s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it will be displayed alongside various other bits of very clever tech. Bosch thinks that by 2020 there could be up to a million on-demand shuttles on the road, and up to 2.5 million by 2025. By the middle of the next decade, all of these shuttles will be fully electric and completely autonomous, it claims. The concept shuttle is both autonomous and electric. And it"s connected to digital services that let punters "book the vehicles, share rides with other passengers, and pay for the journey" and operators manage their charging, repair and maintenance. "In the future, every vehicle on the road will make use of Bosch digital services," says Dr. Markus Heyn, member of the company"s board of management.
Date written: 13 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14312
Hands up, who"s getting a bit bored of autonomous, sharable pod things? Seems like everyone"s doing them from bicycle manufacturers to flat-pack furniture makers. At least Bosch, the latest company to share its vision of "a new kind of mobility" knows something about cars. While it doesn"t actually build them, it"s one of the biggest suppliers in the business. Your own car probably has a few Bosch bits hidden beneath the surface. And without them, it probably wouldn"t work. The company"s concept shuttle is heading to next year"s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where it will be displayed alongside various other bits of very clever tech. Bosch thinks that by 2020 there could be up to a million on-demand shuttles on the road, and up to 2.5 million by 2025. By the middle of the next decade, all of these shuttles will be fully electric and completely autonomous, it claims. The concept shuttle is both autonomous and electric. And it"s connected to digital services that let punters "book the vehicles, share rides with other passengers, and pay for the journey" and operators manage their charging, repair and maintenance. "In the future, every vehicle on the road will make use of Bosch digital services," says Dr. Markus Heyn, member of the company"s board of management.
Date written: 13 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14312
