The Engineers: The future of cars

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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From the fuel that powers them to the drivers who drive them, engineers are innovating every aspect of the automobile, including solar-powered vehicles, full automation, clean fuel cars and electrification. Three engineers at the forefront of reimagining the car are on a panel hosted by Kevin Fong answering questions from an audience at the Science Museum in London, and on video link across five continents worldwide.

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0:00.0	APPLAUSE
0:06.6	Hello, thank you very much.
0:08.3	I'm Kevin Fong, and this is the BBC World Service.
0:12.1	Welcome to the Science Museum in London,
0:14.6	a grand Victorian building which attracts millions of visitors a year.
0:19.1	Now, there's an enormous wheel of copper wrapped in wood just here behind me,
0:24.4	once the most powerful radio transmitter in the world.
0:28.4	And to my left and right, there are large screens with a modern video audience
0:32.7	from around the world, and on the seats in front of me,
0:36.6	and standing across the gallery is an in-person audience here in London.
0:42.0	We're here with the BBC Partners,
0:44.5	the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851,
0:48.2	to explore the future of cars with three engineers
0:51.9	who are redefining the future of mobility worldwide.
0:56.2	Our engineers are at the absolute forefront of that revolution across the world.
1:02.1	Ayo Vunderhom from the Netherlands has developed the first family car capable of being powered
1:08.5	by its own solar power.
1:10.6	He is Chief Technology Officer for Lightyear.
1:13.9	Jamie Shotten is an innovator in AI and autonomous vehicles
1:18.0	who's pioneering a machine learning approach to self-driving cars.
1:21.9	He's chief scientist at Wave in the UK.
1:25.7	And Linda Zhang is chief engineer of the Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup Truck,
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