A few things will determine the success. One of them is the driver, he is seen as the ambassador of the brand. The driver is the most important analog interface of MOIA.
The quality of the route software is also of great importance. Passengers can get on wherever they want and be dropped off anywhere in the built-up area. Solving the age-old traveling salesman problem is already a challenge. Add this to the information about the dynamic flow rate of the roads in a large city and you have an asset of great value for MOIA, if this problem is solved optimally.
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With your smartphone app you can order a car, you tell it where you want to go, the system will send a car to you, give you a price, the payment takes place Uber style.
The price? It will be more expensive than public transport, it will be cheaper than an Uber-X. MOIA never wants to compete with public transport on price level, because the intention is not to get people out of public transport.
It is not about MOIA. It is about the role that technology can play in solving the problem of pollution and congestion in the city. Major cities like Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London, Paris, Mexico City, the states of California and New York, the countries of Norway and France and also the European Union , they have all announced to ban diesel cars. And now it is still the diesel cars, it is logical to expect that soon it will be the turn of petrol cars.
Again, I am not talking about MOIA. I am japan phone number list talking about a solution to a problem that is so clearly visible and also solvable. No city will let itself become unliveable. It is too early for self-driving cars, but why wouldn't you consider a MOIA bus as a self-driving car? From the perspective of the passenger, it is a self-driving vehicle. The driving algorithm is a driver of flesh and blood. It costs a bit more, but it also provides possibilities. No interface is as human as a human.
Why would MOIA succeed?
And Uberpool? Lyft Line? Why didn’t they take the market? Why would a new player like MOIA succeed? You name it. It could be the custom-made van. Robust. Reliable. Legroom. Wi-Fi. No choice. Electric.
It could be the driver. It's somewhere between a bus driver and a private person. Fred Teeven type. We'll see. Next year in Hamburg it will become clear whether it will be a success. Much will depend on the density of the network. High demands will be made on accessibility. Maximum waiting time of a few minutes, minimum detours because of the pool effect. But if you were allowed to design a greenfield city now, there would be no discussion. It would be a car-free and bus-rich city.
We went back on Tuesday early evening, from the factory hall 'Arena' in Berlin to Tegel Airport. The taxi that normally takes 25 minutes, now crawls through the city. It became an hour and fifteen minutes. We were one of the few cars with more than one person in it.