TED-开哈利波特的飞车,就不会堵车了吗?
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不知道读者们每天上下班都要花多少时间呢?曾经在广州某周三下午3点多就被堵死在路上而差点赶不上交税截止期的小编可是有一肚子堵车辛酸史...
今天的TED演讲,把生物学和交通运输奇妙地结合起来,以后难不成我们都能坐上超智能的哈利波特飞车啦?
https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=y0532v1xlj7&width=500&height=375&auto=0
讲师:Wanis Kabbaj
授课语言:英文
类型:艺术、演讲、TED全网首播
课程简介:本期TED演讲嘉宾带给大家一个全新的视角来看待城市交通拥挤问题,并大胆提出一个终极解决方案。他认为我们现在有梦想,有概念,有技术来改变城市的交通问题,接下来就是行动吧! (网易公开课编辑整理)
精选段落:
The reason blood is so incredibly efficient is that our red blood cells are not dedicated to specific organs or tissues; otherwise, we would probably have traffic jams in our veins. No, they're shared. They're shared by all the cells of our body. And because our network is so extensive, each one of our 37 trillion cells gets its own deliveries of oxygen precisely when it needs them.
Blood is both a collective and individual form of transportation. But for our cities, we've been stuck. We've been stuck in an endless debate between creating a car-centric society or extensive mass-transit systems. I think we should transcend this. I think we can create vehicles that combine the convenience of cars and the efficiencies of trains and buses. Just imagine. You're comfortably sitting in a fast and smooth urban train, along with 1,200 passengers. The problem with urban trains is that sometimes you have to stop five, ten, fifteen times before your final destination.
What if in this train you didn't have to stop? In this train, wagons can detach dynamically while you're moving and become express, driverless buses that move on a secondary road network. And so without a single stop, nor a lengthy transfer, you are now sitting in a bus that is headed toward your suburb. And when you get close, the section you're sitting in detaches and self-drives you right to your doorstep. It is collective and individual at the same time. This could be one of the shared, modular, driverless vehicles of tomorrow.
血液是如此有效率的原因 是我们的血细胞不只作用于 特定器官或组织; 要不然,我们的血管可能也会堵塞。 它们实际上是共享的。 它们被身体所有的细胞共有。 但是因为我们的身体系统如此庞大, 37万亿细胞中的每一个 都有自己的氧气输送渠道, 有需要时能实现精准输送。
血液既是集体,也是个体的运输方式。 但是对我们的城市来说, 我们被困住了。 我们被无尽的争辩困住了, 纠结于创造一个以汽车为中心的社会, 还是打造大型的交通系统。 我觉得我们应该跳出这些限制。 我觉得我们能建造出 结合传统汽车的便捷, 和火车巴士的效率的交通工具。 想想看, 你舒服地坐在一辆 快速平稳的城市火车上, 还有其他1200个乘客。 城市火车的问题在于 有时候你要停下五次、十次、十五次 才到达你的站点。
如果这个火车不用停下呢? 这辆火车的 车厢能够在移动中自动脱离, 成为高速的无人驾驶巴士, 飞驰在次级运输道路上。 所以无需任何停顿, 也无需长距离的换乘, 你正坐在一辆驶向城区的巴士中。 快到的时候, 你所坐的部分会脱离, 自动驾驶到你的目的地跟前。 这就同时实现了集体和个体运输。 这可能就是未来的公共模块化 无人驾驶交通工具之一。
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