Building the Model T for Gen Z

For autonomous rubber to hit the road—and not pedestrians, bikers and scooters--it may be time to agree to some new Transformational Transportation Thinking (needs a cooler name, how about T3?) to help us more quickly achieve the same disruption to the car industry that cars managed when competing w...

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Published inIndustry Week
Main Author Kilgore, Richard
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville Endeavor Business Media 19.09.2019
Subjects
Assembly
Automation
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Design specifications
Disruption
Electric vehicles
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Musk, Elon
Pedestrians
Ride sharing services
Rubber
Standardization
Transportation industry
Work stations
Workstations
San Francisco California
United States > US
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Summary:For autonomous rubber to hit the road—and not pedestrians, bikers and scooters--it may be time to agree to some new Transformational Transportation Thinking (needs a cooler name, how about T3?) to help us more quickly achieve the same disruption to the car industry that cars managed when competing with the horse-and-buggy industry just a little over a hundred years ago. Most importantly, a universal T design specification would enable T manufacturers and component vendors to employ the most state-of-the art, high-volume, fixed-automation manufacturing processes possible. Imagine a T design that could reduce that process to 10 standardized components and 10 work stations assembled in a lights-out robotic assembly sphere. Because components and manufacturing processes would be standardized, the list of possible manufacturers could include not only those from the traditional auto industry, but also others from the micromobility world (like the makers of scooters) and possibly the electronics assembly industries.
ISSN:0039-0895
1930-8957