Future of mobility

Autonomous cars do not need a window. There are many more possibilities for use and design, says Alexander Mankowsky, futurist at Daimler AG.   

Video-Interview with Daniel Wiegand, CEO Lilium. The German startup is developing flying taxi drones. The aviation engineer predicts that air taxis could take over up to 40 percent of car traffic in the next 15 years. 

What happens when human drivers and autonomous cars share road traffic? We interviewed Michael Decker, Professor of Technology Assessment in the Philosophy department of the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT).

Interview with Gabriele Semino, leads the WARR Hyperloop project at TU Munich. In 2017 and 2018, his team of students won Elon Musk's SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition with the fastest custom-built capsule. The Hyperloop is the idea of a vacuum tube that will one day carry passengers at high speed.

"When a car drives autonomously, I can think about games and entertainment," says Ralf Lamberti, Head of Intellectual Property, Trends & Innovation at Daimler AG in the interview.