Transport yourself into 2050.
And think about where you're going to be living,
where you're going to be working,
and where you're going to go shopping,
if we still go shopping in that time frame.
And how you going to get from place to place to place?
I've been in the automotive business for 37 years,
and we've never seen a disruption as we're seeing today.
People don't want to buy cars anymore.
Young adults don't want to get licenses anymore.
We're seeing mobility services crop up everywhere.
But the big questions to me are three,
and one is: how can we keep our roadways safe and accident-free?
Secondly, how can we have
or completely eliminate our carbon footprint?
And thirdly, how can we improve people's lives
especially those of the elderly and the disabled?
And this is really where smart mobility plays a huge role.
Smart mobility here in Ohio will allow us to demonstrate
all of these technologies
and also to provide the workforce for this changing space.
So let's first talk about safety.
This is the first year in about 12 years
that we actually have an increase in traffic fatalities on our roads,
and it's not small.
Nationally, it's 8%.
And of those increases in traffic fatalities,
85% to 95% of those are caused by human error.
We have to stop killing ourselves in our cars.
So let me take you down the road of safety.
First, we're going to start with ADAS
to V2V, to V2Eye, to autonomous, to your self-driving,
and don't worry I'll tell you what all those things mean.
Up in the upper left-hand column, what you're seeing is
what we call ADAS: Advanced Driver Avoiding Systems.
And if you have a more recent car,
it's all those things that beep at you, and buzz at you,
and tell you need to do something
because you're about to do something stupid.
Like backup, auto-braking, or forward collision warning
around view monitor.
That's the beginning of smart technology,
but that's only helping us stay out of a problem.
We really need to make the car think like a human.
The second phase is vehicle-to-vehicle communication, V2V.
These are the vehicles communicating
so that you know what each other are doing.
And you can avoid, again,
when the car beeps at you, some potential situation.
Then, there's V2Eye, vehicle-to-infrastructure.
And in this case, it's really syncing with the signals
to allow us to move more efficiently,
and also syncing with pedestrians and/or construction zones
to keep those around us safe.
This is really just the beginning;
now we need to apply the human intelligence,
make the product think like a human so it can drive itself.
So now we're going to really get geeky.
And I know it's probably scary hearing an engineer say that she'll get geeky,
but I promise, I'll come back out.
This is an autonomous car,
and when we first started thinking about autonomy,
we did the obvious thing, we looked at nature.
And we looked at flocks of birds, we looked at schools of fish.
Places where the animals were densely packed,
moving at high speed, all going towards the same place.
But they never run into each other, they don't cause accidents.
So we thought we really need to replicate that with sensors on the car.
And that's what we do with about 18 to 20 different sensors.
The first and probably most important is LIDAR - also the most expensive one -
which is Light Detection and Ranging.
That's what allows us to see
what's happening several car lengths in front of where we are,
and gives you that complete, around view sense of what's happening.
RADAR: everybody knows what radar is from the weather I hope.
You know, the signals come back and forth;
we can measure distance and velocity with radar.
Third, camera.
Everyone has a camera, we all know what they are.
There's usually between four and six of them
strategically mounted so that the car can see 360°.
Your mother wasn't the only one with eyes in the back of her head.
And next, GPS mapping
so that we know where we are and the roadways.
Some manufacturers use it a lot, some don't use it so much.
Every company has their own philosophy.
We take all of the data from all those sensors
and create the programs that allow the cars to drive themselves.
You see a couple of examples on the screen behind me.
The question is
and why do we need to do more testing and evaluation is
we don't know what's going to happen when a Google meets a Ford,
or a GM meets a Ford.
Every car is programed to think differently.
We need to know how they're going to interact.
We need to put them out on the roadway and try it out.
And then the other complication is
we're going to have dumb cars out there for a while;
they don't have any of this technology
at least 11 to 15 years, maybe longer,
because the average age of our car today is about 11 years.
We have to know what's going to happen
when these smart cars interact with the dumb cars as well.
The Ohio Smart Mobility Initiative - which you're seeing
in a drawing behind me that you probably can't see -
one of the assets of the university is the Transportation Research Center
which is a 4,500-acre proving ground just down in East Liberty, Ohio.
And that's a contained test site where we can test all kinds of products.
And not just cars, but we can test trucks, we can test ag equipment,
we can test drones
because in the new reality, all of these products
are going to be sending up data, 5 pentabytes per second of data.
That has to be analyzed, understood,
and then each has to do what they are supposed to do.
So a contained testbed there,
a contained testbed on the south side of Columbus at the new SPARC stadium,
which is another 47-acre site
and in between, over 30 miles of roadway that we can test all kinds of products
and see what's going to happen and learn from them.
We have to use Machine Learning and make the cars learn and understand.
I talked about some other elements, so let me go into those.
When we look at what's happening with our cities,
urbanization by 2050,
85% of the world's population are going to be in cities
with 10 million people or more.
That's huge, and we have to figure out
how we're going to move people and goods in and out of these congested areas.
And we have to do it, again, with zero carbon footprint.
Truck platooning, an example here where the first truck has a driver
and the last truck has a driver, all those in between do not.
We can save between 7% and 20% fuel economy.
Secondly, even in a traffic jam,
there's about 20% of the roadway that's not been utilized.
We don't know where it is,
we can't see it as drivers, but these cars can see it.
And then,
the propulsion systems need to be clean;
more EVs, more fuel cells, more hybrids,
and most importantly, what we use to power those zero-emission products
needs to be clean energy in our grid.
Also by 2050, one of our largest growing segments of population is 65 plus.
Which means we're going to have a lot more elderly people,
disabled people or soon to be disabled, mobility challenged.
And we have to maintain our independence.
Here in the US, we don't have extended families.
We expect our elderly to manage their lives themselves,
and they want to.
So by providing them not only with a way
to get around down the roadways with autonomous products
but personal mobility,
automated wheelchairs, other personal exoskeletal devices,
everything that allows them to maintain their quality of life
both mental and physical.
And then, when we think about what this disruption is going to do,
you hear a lot of people talking about
- as usual, when we have disruption -
all these jobs are going to be challenged, all these people will be unemployed.
We have to flip the page
and think about all the businesses possible in the Internet of Things.
And secondarily, with this technology so rapidly approaching,
we need to think about how we are going to continue
to keep our workforce fully up to speed with what's happening.
The continuing education demands are going to be so much more so
than the way that we operate today.
And the opportunities are going to be endless.
Columbus is quite clever.
It was an intelligent city this year.
And seeing all these changes including in this area of Columbus,
another half million people will be here by 2050.
They commissioned a study called "Inside 2050",
which you can look it up, and you can see the results.
And it was how we will manage this influx of people
and not have urban sprawl,
and be able to revitalize our urban city.
We really took a look at where we want to be in 2050,
and we highlighted areas that we really need to work to improve,
where we have the gaps today.
And it's primarily an exercise in data.
The smart city is all about data, and how we utilize data.
So the five areas are access to jobs.
Everyone who lives here needs to be able to get to and from
their place of employment.
Smart Logistics: we have
one of the largest urban delivery centers inland ports in the nation.
And how we're going to get those goods more efficiently?
And how we're going to do with right size products?
And how we're going to do it with better, clean energy?
Thirdly is connected citizens.
We actually have mobility deserts in the city of Columbus.
Areas where people do not have their own cars,
they don't have access to public transit, they don't have Internet, cell phone,
believe it or not, they don't even have a credit card.
So we need to find solutions so that we can provide mobility
for these areas, same as everyone else in the city.
Next area is connected visitors, and you probably like the Buckeye.
We have events here in Columbus all the time,
and I had a great example last night.
We had a Blue Jackets game, we had an Ohio State hockey game,
we had the Arnold, we had TEDx,
we had additional things going on,
and all it was, was a huge bottleneck everywhere around campus.
You can hardly get around.
We need to think of smarter ways to get people in and out of this city,
think about transit hubs, think about people parking far away
and being shuttled in in autonomous kinds of products.
We need to manage that, again, zero carbon.
And lastly, sustainable transportation:
we need to do more in the area of zero emissions in our products.
Columbus is going to make this happen, we're all engaged to make it happen.
So let me leave you with just one thought.
And I call it triple zero:
zero accidents and fatalities,
zero carbon footprint,
and zero stress, access for all.
Thank you.
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