Brad Templeton on How Self Driving Cars Disrupt The World | TNW Conference 2017

How Self Driving Cars Are Turning More Than Transportation Upside Down Everybody's building self-driving cars, it seems, and they will start pilot projects this decade and start taking over cities in the 2020s. Sure, that means huge disruption in the automotive industry, but it goes far beyond that, changing the nature of our cities, where and how we live, and many other industries including energy, real estate, retailing, shipping, media, finance and many more. Even the Dutch-favoured 2 wheeled transport is up for big changes. Learn about saving millions of lives, affecting trillions of dollars and billions of tons of CO2, and what the players are doing about it. Brad Templeton FOUNDING FACULTY COMPUTING & NETWORKS SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY Brad Templeton is founding faculty for Computing & Networks at Singularity University, and Chairman Emeritus and futurist of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the leading cyberspace civil rights foundation. He is on the board of the Foresight Institute He also advised Google's team developing self-driving cars, and writes about such cars at robocars.com. He also advises Starship on delivery robots and Quanergy in the LIDAR space. He founded ClariNet Communications Corp (the world's first "dot-com" company.) He also created rec.humor.funny, and its web site, www.netfunny.com, the world's longest running blog.