The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology By Ray Kurzweil

In 2005, Ray Kurzweil, an American futurist, published “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” to argue that humans’ skills and our society will be rocked to its foundation in 2045 by exponential technological growth. Unless the singularity is not near or the singularity will never arrive, it is no doubt that any kind of technologies has been developing rapidly recently. As you know, our life has been comfortable by them, and then, this technological growth also affects our transportation system. What did you imagine about vehicles during child? Now, new vehicles that we imagined are to be actual things because of many kinds of technology developing. Especially, the car has already been changing for several years.

Governments of developed countries have made the regulation of engines, and companies especially Japanese companies invented more fuel-efficient engines to observe that. However, such controls will not need because the EV SHIFT occurs. EV shift is the change of the source of power of the car from gasoline to electricity. Even though the electric car consumes electricity which is made from burning fossil fuels, its energy efficiency is superior to gasoline car, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Keio University, and National Institute for Environmental Studies proved. These days, rechargeable battery such as lithium ion battery become high quality which make the car run longer and less cost; for example, Tesla Motors introduced new model, Tesla3, which can run 500km with once charge, and United States Department of Energy (DOE) predicted that lithium battery cost will be same as engine by 2022. As this innovation is occurring, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and China start to consider that they will ban the gasoline car in 2030 to

I believe that IoT will develop the car industry as the tool of making big data of the autonomous car. The autonomous car which is a car, that drivers don’t need to motorvate almost, is investigated to create it by many corporations worldwide; for example, Audi, the German car maker, announced in July 2017 that Audi would release the level 3 autonomous car, which can use automation mode at the certain condition, and many other makers have already created the level 2 autonomous car such as SERENA (Nissan). In addition, Audi made the level 5 autonomous car, which doesn’t require pedals, handles, and drivers, as a concept car, and Japanese government set a goal to make the level 5 car in Japan by