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In advance of our February 6th, 2018 event all about autonomous vehicles, we spoke with one of the speakers, Boston Consulting Group Principal, Augustin Wegscheider, who also manages the World Economic Forum’s Future of Urban & Autonomous Mobility project. In this podcast, he talks about a particular aspect of this trend: shared electric autonomous vehicles, or SAEVs. Here’s what he said when asked to gauge the impact of this new mode of mobility: “We actually think that this will probably be a massive change. It’s probably only comparable to the actual introduction of the automobile itself at the turn of the century. It’s really going to change the paradigm from not having to own a vehicle to just having mobility on demand. We think it’s a really big shift. One story that I like is actually from 1894 — there was a story in the Times of London that predicted in 50 years every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure because everything was based on horse carriages and they just couldn’t see another future. And I think we’re at another turning point, where vehicle ownership is going to go down dramatically and we’re going to see a really big change in mobility patterns.” You can listen to the complete podcast here: