Traffic. Some people are dreaming of a life with less traffic we want to have a city where we dont just see cars and parking lots everywhere. So what might the city traffic of the future look like. Just imagine thats driving home ability to risk actually came in and for free i but where should we go if we still think driving cars is a lot of phone. Customers cover all different vehicle groups. And could you master the Safety Systems on Award Winning hybrid x e 40. 4 activated or be activated systems. On top of menu that open up even more menus be on the safe side of cars and mobility right now on rec. Climate change and emissions limits have left their mark on driving for fun. Sports cars may pump up the adrenaline but they also pump out pollutants like theres no tomorrow in germany sales are down to around 50000. 00 a year. Yet s. U. V. S have topped the 1000000 mark in germany even though theyre also seen as gas guzzlers and climate killers they are the Fastest Growing segments of the global car district. Sports cars are all about pace passion and the sheer uncompromising thrill of driving nobody. Was the ford mustang is the worlds best selling sports who pay the quintessential pony car since its launch 964. 00. The porsche 911 is another icon of modern motoring and has sold over a 1000000 units since it 1st hit the roads half a century ago. The 1st porsche was built in 1970 it had just 35 horsepower but thanks to weighing only 585 kilos it could reach 135 kilometers an hour. Company. Said that the last car ever to be built would be a sports car. And a sports car was not merely a mode of transportation the imagination. Function the company. This ultimate marriage of design and engineering promised a way of life. Exclusivity independence the ideal get away from the daily grind. Soon enough sports cars went from being on the vehicle to stars of both the big and small screen. I dont game consuls 2. In the Virtual World these cars deliver plenty of action. Some new models now even get launched in video games. And if that whats your appetite how about one of the. Actually a stinger. The b. M. W. 440 i grant. My or the lexus l c 500. 00. Of course to really put cars like these through their paces you need a race track. Or at least a test track like the one near berlin. Our clients who attend our training courses cover all different vehicle groups motorbikes passenger cars i pads and trucks we cater to both private individuals and commercial clients with. A quick look under the hood before we get going the stinger has a twin turbo engine that cranks out 269 kilowatts. Is a subsidiary of south korean car giant hyundai. And the stinger is out to muscle in on the european sports car market. Is german designed. Made sure it had what it takes. Out on the test track nicaea shows the benefits of its all wheel drive. It tops out at 270 Kilometers Per Hour just fine when you need it almost touch. In germany the stinger sells for a base price of around 56000. 00 euros its mix of price and performance as are the nikkei. Theres nothing hor about the l c 500. 00 which uses lexs styling in class inside and. Lexus is the luxury brand of japanese carmaker toilette were eager to show that they are among the front runners not only among hybrid cars. Are matched by the way it hugs the road. Its developers who are granted triple the usual time to toil and take are away at the new model paths. The results is life in the fast lane a trip that will have your heart pounding and your pulse racing. 351. 00 kilowatts catapult this mean machine to a top speed of 280 kilometers an hour. And awesome feel at the wheel but a price tag of 100000. 00 euros and this baby burns i want being 12 leaders a gas for 100 kilometers. B. M. W. Meanwhile harking back to the seventys when the 3. 0 c. S. L. Dominated the european touring car circuit. And now the 440 i grant who pays channeling that history. Unlike its predecessors on the racetrack its not meant to tear up the record books but it comes with its fair share of luxury extras. In it 62000. 00 euros its far cheaper than its lexus rival. Its output is a relatively unimpressive 240 kilowatts but you hardly notice that when you take to the curves here it roar. The perfectly configured suspension is coupled with the legendary straight 6 inch. And as youre thrust back into your seat after shifting down a gear you get their real sports car feeling. These are cars that unleashed powerful emotions for some theyre objects of desire embodying that ultimate freedom of movement. For others theyre unwelcome relics of an environmentally unfriendly past. But environmental responsibility and sports cars can also go hand in hand a new Porsche Tighe on is powered by 560 kilowatts and its all electric sports car you can drive with a clean conscience. Hello and welcome to today were going to have a look at this. The goal of the x e 40 isnt exactly a new car this compact s. U. V. Claimed the european car of the year trophy in 2018 and its fresh looks made the swedish best seller a real crowd pleaser. It can also choose a contrast in the roof color to make your car really stand out. Well whats new about its or to be precise because of the. 5000 and is the 1st plug in hybrid power train for this car according to. The round 2. 00 to 2. 00 per 100000. Which almost almost sounds too good to be true. The plug in hybrid combines a 180. 00 horsepower 3 cylinder gasoline engine with a 60 children want electric motor and front wheel drive hybrid drive trains always add weight to a car thanks to the 2 engines and the battery and at 1900 kilos the x e 40 is no exception. Right but you can feel the weight of the extra 40 has never been a review of speeding all the stuff you definitely penfield the punishment stop exhilarating but with around 7. 3 seconds from 0 to 100 but this hybrid combination between you and your races. That speed was never the point of this what its aiming for is fuel economy. The hybrid system pegs the different driving modes name to hybrids and power in pure youll get all electric driving meaning because only he was in b. Electric engines its good post up 125 k. M. s h. And the range of 50 you know but with white lies when youll both be driving the city. When the batteries i mean youre claiming plug it in then charge it up or use the internal Combustion Engine to get the batteries some additional juice in the hybrid mold the system tries to combine both engines in the most effective way its probably the most you would drive the most in when youre outside the city you. Are going to use most of the time and then theres the performance malt where both engines are running in parallel all the time to give you the maximum performance for whenever you. You feel the need for. The science the 3 driving modes the x e 40 offers a whole range of Safety Systems functional has always been at the forefront of driver safety. Engineer kneels borland invented the 3 point seatbelts for the car maker back in 1959 the German Patent Office named the belts one of the aid inventions that most benefited humankind during 100 years ending in 1905 with head side a neat airbags of all the x e 40 scored top marks in the euro and c. A. P crash test. Emergency brake assist and active lane keeping assist come standard. Plus cross Traffic Alert warns you of vehicles approaching from the side and braking support automatically applies the brakes in order to avoid a collision. But theres one problem ive got with all the Safety Systems and thats not the systems themselves as they were pretty much flawlessly its the way you control them because to activate or the activate the systems we have to do so through the year for payment stream they are menus on top of menus that open up even more menus and i dont know or maybe its just personal preference and after a week or so of driving the car you will eventually master the system but personally i dont really like. Ok so the user interface of the infotainment system might need an overhaul but what about fuel consumption. Please be in the countryside probably isnt the best territory to achieve presumptions that are close to being 2. 5 meters per 100 kilometers but we have never im not saying that its impossible to achieve those numbers by driving world but the. Most of the time in the hybrid vault we ended up with something close to. 18 to 100 feet of me to us i so whats the verdict at a hefty starting price of 49000. 00 euros the x e 40 with its new plug in hybrid engine has both the advantages and disadvantages he might expect on longer trips this heavy s. U. V. Tends to guzzle the gas but for running errands around town or commuting to work the sleek looking volvo will get you there economically and safely. And. Our cities are failing us. Has affected us all. This is all future generations can look forward to i like to have a city where i dont need to worry about the machines and my head what do we do to improve the way we move in our cities but its very smart join us on a journey where Architects Engineers and activists face up to the challenges of our future urban mobility. Traffic chaos some of the toughest stuff. Worldwide every day. There are some 47000000 cars on germanys roads enough for 2 of the 3 adults to be driving at the same time. Thats the highest level ever in berlin alone 87000 new cars were registered in 2019 despite growing traffic problems. Like lots of public transport with ok bicycle. And we see all those cars next to the universe to boating people like the students basically have free public transport and they come by car and i think thats not good. All over the world. Rafiq pollution is choking us of the air we need to breathe. People around the world are demanding change. Now after more than 100 years is the cars dominance of our ever more crowded cities finally coming to an end to the broad environment is occupied with currents and nobody has the freedom to live in the city in a more natural way and the future of the cities is the future of morbidity in a new way. The Global Design studio graft is developing visions of our future urban mobility. Its founders last cricket bag in thomasville my are specialists in urban planning and Sustainable Architecture they expect future generations to have far more choice in how they move around their cities. That child all of us. Will probably walk quite. Some distance because the neighborhoods will be without too much traffic jump on a car maybe that leads then to a connection that probably will take their child into the air and landed right on the working place. Flying taxis could be a spectacular urban upgrade but probably not for the masses the biggest changes will affect cars especially our own private ones of which there are more than 1000000000. 00 worldwide. There will be no any more between Public Transportation and individual traffic of the separation of both has a lot of cities that we see. But what could take the place of private cars and emissions free highly flexible public transport system. Our urban moved. Could depend on vehicles like the mover the tech underpinning the mover comes from a german company. Its meant to demonstrate how one platform can fulfill many needs. For us to move or could be used for the transport of people. For the transport of goods during daylight traffic transport of people and during the transport of whatever. In germany carsick unused for 23 hours a day on average each wasting about 12 square meters in parking space. Thats as big as the typical german childs bedroom. In the u. S. Cities like houston are struggling to overcome decades of urban planning that has given more space to cars than anything else. The more you have reduced the dimensions of the vehicle of course we achieve that by moving the drive units into the wheels themselves placing the technical components as far into the corners as possible to make more interior space years a ball. And that frees up space on the road so. Shrinking vehicle footprints are just one part of shufflers mobility vision. This Award Winning prototype can carry 4 people to their destination cleanly autonomously and flexibly. This city will drastically change as we share mobility if it is public or private leaving the possibility for the soon to come back to the people meaning we need less parking spots. We basically need the cars or planes or the drones whatever it is too long so we need new spaces. Transportation. In the near future digital network. Will drive our mobility. Shufflers idea forces people using Autonomous Vehicles from the fleet working 247. B. s multifunctional emissions free vehicles to transport people and goods or provide services by sharing the vehicles people could free up huge areas of space previously dedicated to parking but are we really ready to have robots driving everywhere. And again schools are good if one major hurdle is legal vehicles like that are not really covered by the current legislation well have to make many adjustments to legal frameworks and the lack of Legal Security surrounding Autonomous Vehicles is putting the brakes on development thats going to go. Its done too little to become a singer but can we really afford to lose any more time. The generations of young people who will inherit our cities are already looking for quick and direct ways of improving our urban lives now and then we can do 2 things firstly politically we can challenge all politicians that we want to have a city where we want to live and where we dont just see parking lots everywhere but where we can go everywhere and im not afraid better call it us secondly we can do it ourself we can take the bicycle to our university to school with them by. The metro for the underground and we can take. The german city of out spork is trying to get cars out of the city by offering free public transport in the central zone. Since january 2020 people can also take out a mobility subscription that gives them unlimited access to the citys fleet of bikes and cars the package costs around 3 years 50 per day. Its one change among many that are needed. We need that overall Traffic Management as well as the infrastructure as well as. A Payment System a ticket system and things like this of course future mobility has to be affordable it might pay for itself with and its like the internet does these days. Just imagine thats driving all mobility is actually clean and for free why because its a search place where you can work with driving was you know its automatic you dont have to take care of that its shared with other people its connected so basically the people that run at the tysons in these to places while youre working they pay for the right so i think a city where we dont have costs. Has much more space for our troops has space for other people and i think a city with all costs can have a lot more opportunities than a city with calls. A city without cars for many people thats hard to imagine. But things are beginning to move in that direction the question is what do we want to do with the space when the cars have gone. Weve just got some traffic. And then you see these could be im a texan. 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