Moving On: The Transport Designers Guide
22 March 2020
Following the total ban on manual driving in London on April 1st 2018, Londoners have enjoyed reduced road deaths and greater access to leisure and life long learning during their journeys in London on the fully automated multimodel transport system.
Interestingly, most Londoners now prefer to spend their vacations at home
as they are unable to cope with the pressures of driving in an unsupported environment. The greatest risk of death for Londoners is driving outside their city, where their lack of skill has led to a significant increase in the accident rate. Just the opposite of what was intended. Driving is now being reintroduced on an experimental basis in a rationed form.
Critical events leading to the story
2001 > Fully intelligent car demonstrated
2002 > Lord Mayor introduces intelligent car policy
2006 > Skeleton intelligent car infrastructure in place
2006 > Prestige cars equipped with IT
2008 > EU directive requires intelligent cars in main cities by 2018
2010 > All cars equipped with IT
2015 > Dramatic decline in car related accidents
2016 > Dramatic increase in OU degrees!
2016 > Huge public support for IT cars
2018 > Intelligent cars mandatory
2019 > Statistics reveal increase in car related accidents for Londoners in non-IT areas
2020 > Limited non-IT driving compulsory to prevent deskilling
The ideal transport scenario in London 2020
> Integrated ticket/timetable public system which is clean, secure and affordable
> 24 hour operation
> Personal transport with intelligent technology
> Mobile phone free
© The authors and Royal College of Art, 2000
Last Updated: 12 May 2000
Corrections and comments to: David Whittle