Robin Chase: Getting cars off the road and data into the skies

http://www.ted.com Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the worlds biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.

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[kosmicslop]

I think most of you are letting your own political ideas get in the way of what she's saying about the cars. How is what she doing communist? She identified what she percieved as a problem, developed a business plan and made the ultimate capitalist bet and began a business. She's speaking at TED because that bet seemed to have payed off and she might have some other good ideas. If she is so off-base, anyone on this comment board is free to counter her business model and prove her wrong.

[jaimeone1]

I think this is a great idea.....start with urban design

[lightandbeautiful]

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[oneeyedboxer]

I would never share a car with anyone, having a car on demand that you can take for drive anytime and go anywhere is priceless .

[dinogrower]

@kosmicslop okay thanks for responding to me. I noticed you said that anyone is free to counter her business model and prove her wrong. I think her argument and idea was pretty much demolished by the TED talk called: "Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame" That guys knows what he is talking about and what the solution is. This lady, well, communist is too nice a word for her. She is more than taking us all a step backwards.

[kosmicslop]

@dinogrower Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But I had actually forgotten about this comment until you replied because I made it 2 years ago.

[dinogrower]

@kosmicslop I think your eight votes are fake.

[JPRubber2]

What a skewed perspective. A country's capability to grow and support growth has always been proportional to people's ability to travel. Obviously, we need to get off the roads, but not pay per mile. Before you know it they will charge you to walk next door.

[Headcaser10]

Freedom is not free. I already pay for my own way and am aware of the costs that are related to my activities. I find it unfotunate that the people who use Global-Warming scare tactics don,t seem to follow the research avaliable. The ice cores that have been obtained from both poles,as well as deep ocean sediments show that our planet has undergone temp. shifts many times in the past. People still survived. The adaptable and inventive live, folk like TED and such will become exstinct. GOOD DEAL!

[LusoCMD]

Once again this would put the rich in every road and leave out poor to average people. I like the sharing car and use by need car concept but we most be careful when putting money as the force to make people stop doing something

[Mrmoc7]

I appreciate her courage to voice out her Ideas, and they are very good ideas, but they do not take into account a number of things: Human laziness, evilness, terrorism, and selfishness. Her plans would be very viable if everyone was a decent human being. I simply don't think there will be enough collective will to make this happen. We would rather choke on CO2 than share a ride with our neighbors. Anyone who seriously intends to address global warming will need to find a way around this.

[deadswans2000]

Wow, pretty clueless comments. A fat man saying "Let me eat myself to death and everyone else can sustain my medical costs." Believe me we'd all love to see you kill yourself with pollution except you'll end-up taking the rest of us with you. Put down the jelly doughnut, put down the car, stop being such a selfish suicidal bastard.