First, Segway was supposed to revolutionize urban mobility. Then Segway was supposed to be dead. 20 years ago, the original self-balancing Segway was billed as the future of urban mobility. Soon after launch though, it proved a resounding flop, failing to amount to…
Rob Cotter’s TED Talk was one of the primary inspirations for the founding of Have A Go. Yet even still, it took this in-dept interview for us to realize that Rob Cotter isn’t just the inventor of a really cool solar powered electric bicycle/car hybrid and…
The street is the most democratic space in a city. It’s the place where people gather, mingle, play, buy and sell, walk, gossip, celebrate, people-watch, get news, and hang out.
If this description does not seem to ring true, that’s because we happen to live in a brief sliver of history where it isn’t true. For thousands of years, from the dawn of civilization and the city, getting from point A to B was just one of the many ways our streets have served us. It is only these past few decades where we have, for some reason, quarantined off this amazing space of freedom, play, and life to the automobile. And nowhere is the car a heavier presence on our lives and streets than Los Angeles.
CORD CUTTING AND LEAPFROGGING Cord Cutting Bundling is big business. Cable companies make a killing packaging hundreds of channels together making customers pay for it all, even when most of them only watch between 10-20 channels. But cable companies are seeing their…
We spent $1.1 billion dollars, 5 years, and an infuriating amount of additional hours in traffic expanding the 405. It didn’t work. Not only did it not work, it actually slightly INCREASED travel time: “A traffic study by Seattle-based traffic analytics firm…
As we discussed in our first post, dockless e-scooter and e-bike sharing companies are actually the best thing to happen to the future of the ownership model of lightweight electric vehicles (LEV) thanks to the elimination of several bottlenecks of LEV adoption thanks…
Cyclists can seem like a self-righteous bunch. But ride a bike down a major street in an American city for more than a mile or two, and you’ll understand why and you’ll either join the chorus — or more likely, you’ll just swear to never do it again. People talk about…
If you still think Birds poop on your head and Lime is for tacos and margarita, you’ve been asleep for the last few months. In that time, e-bike and e-scooter sharing companies have spread their wings into dozens of markets adding some juice to millions of trips. We…
This all began with that pesky “2-5 mile” problem… That’s how far I needed to commute to work. It was too far to walk, but was close enough that a car wasn’t that practical either. And the public transport isn’t where (or when) I need it, so I needed another option!…
“Nothing has happened at the level of the pedestrian to improve transportation since we invented the sneaker,” Mr. Kamen said.” We think if you could integrate [this] technology into cities it would be a universal win for everybody.” Not one to…
