Travel: City Pods and Space Travel on Earth Today, half of the
world’s population lives in a city. And this is only going to
continue growing, reaching 70% by 2050, according to experts.
This increasing swell is causing many headaches for urban
planners and designers, the biggest of which is the transport
infrastructure in and around our mega cities. The number one
question: How will we get around in an efficient and sustainable
fashion? In place of cars in congested London, we may well turn
to something like the zero-emission EN-V. Its inventors,General
Motors and their partners The Shanghai Automotive Industry, hope
it will be mass-produced by 2021. Controlled by acoustic
distance sensors,car-to-car data and GPS, the EN-V demands
nothing more of its driver than knowing where you’d like to go.
So in the future, anyone, young or old, with or without a
license, would be able to just hop in and go.The fleet of tiny
EN-V pods is set to be battery-powered and would navigate our
cities using sensors and wireless t