Putting the horse back in the stable.
Pieter Morlion | City of Ghent, Belgium

It took some effort to get here.
| And we still have a long way to go.

Can we stick to our long-term vision ..
|When we are potentially facing something we have never seen before ?

Can we stick to our long-term vision ..
|When we are potentially facing something we have never seen before ?

Question: Who does NOT believe there will be self-driving cars in their city by 2030 ?
 

Question: Who believes we can predict the impact of automated vehicules on our communities?
 

foto paard en kar NY

Question: Did our ancestors like horse-driven         mobility?
 

|TOO HAPPY.

|TOO LATE.

|TOO MANY.

WHY SHOULD CITIES BE INVOLVED
| IN THE RISE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICULES?

CITY AUTHORITIES REPRESENT
THE GENERAL INTEREST

OF THE COMMUNITIES AUTONOMOUS THINGS WILL BE DRIVING THROUGH

Question: Who agrees that it's the duty of cities to represent their communities and challenge the automotive & technology industries?
 

WHAT CAN WE DO TO PREVENT
|BEING TOO HAPPY, TOO LATE, TOO MANY

|TOO LATE.

THE BEST TIME TO PUT RULES IN PLACE IS BEFORE DISRUPTION TAKES PLACE
|AS FIDGET SPINNERS SHOW US

Question: Who thinks the best time to forbid fidget spinners in class is AFTER every single child bought one?
 

Question: Who thinks the best time to make rules for self-driving cars is AFTER everyone got one?
 

OWNING AND USING A (SELF-DRIVING) CAR COMES WITH A RESPONSIBILITY
| THE BEST TIME TO TELL PEOPLE IS BEFORE THEY GET ONE

|TOO HAPPY.

BEING NOT TOO HAPPY
| 1. SELF-DRIVING CARS WITHOUT COMBUSTION ENGINES

Question: Who thinks it's feasible to ban combustion engines on the short term?
 

2020

2030

2040

2050

BEING NOT TOO HAPPY
| 2. SELF-DRIVING CARS DO NOT PARK ON PUBLIC DOMAIN

Question: Is there anybody here from West-Virginia?
 

BEING NOT TOO HAPPY
| 3. SELF-DRIVING CARS SHARE THEIR DATA WITH THE COMMUNITY

BEING NOT TOO HAPPY
| 4. A CAR WILL ALWAYS BE A CAR

|TOO MANY.

HAVING NOT TOO MANY
| 1. SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE NOT FOR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP / USAGE

Question: How many cheerleaders fit in a Smart?
 

Car sharing

Ride sharing

HAVING NOT TOO MANY
| 2. PRICING

|TOO LATE.

|TOO HAPPY.

|TOO MANY.

WE SHOULD NOT PREDICT THE FUTURE,
WE SHOULD SHAPE THE FUTURE.
 

| pieter.morlion@stad.gent