Daily: Hatchback to the Future - Will the Car Survive?

The Bunker

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The car is one of history’s most important inventions, but with changing ownership patterns and the climate crisis, will the vehicle we’ve all grown up with survive the next few decades? The FT’s Motor Industry Correspondent Peter Campbell and futurist Rohit Talwar join Andrew Harrison to discuss the direction of travel for cars, from electric vehicles, to ones that drive themselves, and maybe even some that are capable of flying… “We’re dealing with completely new technologies, and there’s no guarantee the big manufacturers are going to be the winners.” - Rohit Talwar “Demand for electric cars is being driven by regulation, rather than consumer choice.” - Peter Campbell “Last year electric car sales overtook diesel cars. That was unthinkable a couple years ago.” - Peter Campbell “Changes in the car industry could bring down governments.” - Rohit Talwar “People say the car industry is at a fork in the road, it’s rather at the entrance to a labyrinth.” - Peter Campbell “The winners in this new marketplace might be those who can find value in the data, rather than manufacturers themselves.” - Rohit Talwar “The car that you’ll drive in 20 years time may well be from a Chinese brand you’ve never heard of before.” - Peter Campbell https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.7	A while ago I met a guy at a party who said he was a futurist and he was looking at the
1:15.8	distant future of the car industry.
1:18.1	The vehicle of the future, he told me, would look like a Tonka toy, rough, ready, easily repaired with basic modular parts and very utilitarian.
1:26.3	The reason, he said, was that nobody would want to own them.
1:29.3	We'd all hire them by the day or the hour, and when we'd hired them we'd thrash the hell out of them because they wouldn't be cherished repositories
1:35.5	of our identities or badges of our lifestyle they'd just be tools. A party said from the
1:40.8	minority of very high-end luxury cars which would be more
1:43.2	opulent than ever and of course the self-driving cars and who knew what they
1:47.4	would look like. That's all stuck in my head ever since even though I no longer
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