Technology development is often driven by predictions and expectations. This holds in particular for mobility: scenarios combining explorations of how people might live, work, and travel in the future with the possibilities technology might offer are constantly being produced. Since predictions and expectations connect technology to users, society and also enterprises, it is essential for engineers to be able to analyze existing scenarios and contribute to the development of new scenarios.
Predictions come in many forms: assessment reports, futuristic designs, projected benefits of new technical options, and so on. Expectations can be found in science fiction, exhibits, computer games, envisioning exercises by stakeholders, etc. This USE sequence will take predictions and expectations from all technology fields covered in the TU/e strategic area Smart Mobility (including logistics, car technology, urban transport, electric vehicles, the combustion process in cars and trucks, car-sharing and teleworking), and teach students how to assess these and how to construct their own vision of future mobility.
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L’iPhone, lanciato nel 2007, segna una svolta epocale nel percorso di trasformazione in senso digitale delle nostre vite. Con Internet che entra nelle tasche di tutti l’industria automobilistica non può farsi trovare impreparata: le auto sono sempre più collegate agli smartphone e si “parlano” tra loro attraverso le tecnologie dell’Internet of Things, facilitando i conducenti e contribuendo all’affermazione della cosiddetta smart mobility.