Sramana Mitra: I think it’s not as close in terms of consumer deployment of autonomous vehicles. It’s still away. I don’t think it’s ready to hit the roads quite soon. Luke Schneider: I read a Morgan Stanley or a JP Morgan report, not long ago, talking about how exciting self-driving cars are and how it’s
Luke Schneider: Transportation, as a whole, is segregating into three big buckets. There’s owned transportation, which is the traditional or conventional way. It’s what my parents did and sort of what I do where you own a car, drive a car, sell the car, and buy another one. If you own an Aston Martin, it’s
Luke Schneider: The whole point behind this company and why it’s relevant specifically to the Internet of Things is that personal transportation is not your toaster talking to your coffee maker. This is actually you getting access to a vital utility you need as a human being on Earth in 2015. You need cars for
Sramana Mitra: You have described the user experience from the consumer’s point of view. Can you explain the engineering of this? What’s going on where? Luke Schneider: What seems simple on the surface is complex on the inside. It required us to solve a lot of problems. One of the reasons why we chose Audi
This is a discussion with Luke Schneider, the former CTO of Zipcar, on the future of transportation, and how IoT will be playing into that universe. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction about Silvercar as well as yourself. Luke Schneider: I’m the CEO of Silvercar. Silvercar is about three years old now. We were