Tag: transportation

Oct 07
The Third Transportation Revolution

Introduction: A Country Built for Cars I remember when I first fell in love with cars. It started small with Hot Wheels when I was three and Micromachines when I was six. Everything about them was fast and exciting — even the commercials were narrated by the World’s Fastest Talker. I loved them. Then, when I turned 12, […]

Sep 28
On the incredible, shrinking cost of urban transportation.

I call this claim the “Big Ass Assumption” (BAA). The BAA that a critical cost component goes away isn’t as crazy as it sounds. As Mark Suster points out, deflationary economics are often the driving force behind both (i) market expansion and (ii) new use-case creation for older technologies. What better case study is there […]