Give it up for Lewis Horne.
No, no, no you are sensing me, you don’t
perceive me, perception is reality Iiwa.
Give a warm round of applause to our next
guest, Steve Wozniak.
Tesla really was the seed that caused it all
to happen, who would ever build an electric car
large?
Welcome everyone to Uniti Update, Episode
10.
Today we have a really exciting episode infront
of us.
A lot of things have been going on lately,
we have partly gone to Australia to look at
new opportunities which we will show you later
in this episode.
And we have also been at the Road and Transport
Institute of Sweden to do a collaboration
on our Heads-Up-Display. But first we want
to show you when we went to Cube Tech Fair
in Berlin, where Lewis had a speech just before
Steve Wozniak, with a robot on stage.
So now lets check all that out.
So we are in Berlin now, Lewis is going to
have a speech at the cube tech fair, where
he is going to have a video behind him and
beside him there is going to be a robot thats
going to move around and do different movements
with Lewis speech.
Pretty cool stuff!
So we are here in our temporary workshop where
we are setting up the robot Iiwa, she is going
to participate in Lewis speech tomorrow.
And then be talking, “What do you say Iiwa?”
and then she nods.
We can simulate robot movements and everything.
We are in a small room with an alive robot.
We are going to upload some code to the eye,
writing... done uploading.
Eye surgery.
And now we are sitting on the 10th floor of
the hotel working on the last animations which
are going to be behind Lewis on his speech tomorrow,
this is the plan for the animation, here.
Yeah, the sun is shining.
Kevin is a little stressed out...
My bloody bag got squashed bannan all over
the inside of my bag.
So what do you do Kevin?
I create #?%! awesome animations.
We are very close to finishing, but there
is still a lot to do.
At Cube Tech Fair in Berlin!
This next speaker he is the CEO of an electric car company
and this is a company that is launching a fully automated factory from a digital platform.
Give it up for Lewis Horne.
It’s great to be here in Berlin, such a badass city.
I’m here with a whole bunch of epic teammates from Sweden
and up there in Sweden we are reinventing a piece of the world.
The electric car.
We have optimised the machine for it’s Achilles heal which of course is the battery.
We’re not designing for the same old kind of car culture values.
But designing for new kinds of values.
Designing for things that people want today like more processing power.
This machine is a piece of electronics. It is not a car
We start entirely in this digital world and what we create starts to take shape.
The physical world is merely a direct representation, a manifestation, of the digital world.
It’s a completely different world that is highly flexible and obviously highly scalable.
Because we don’t have to involve terribly difficult organisation task of including humans in the process.
The kind of dangerous and difficult jobs that I had to do.
Humans should be creative, they should be inspired, if they are not inspired they just…
They just get tired.
Robots don’t get tired.
Wake up! Hello!
Oh hi!
Sorry I woke you up.
Is my speech boring you?
Oh, ok thank you.
You’re not perceiving me now though right?
No no no you are sensing me you don’t perceive me.
It’s an exciting change.
Like I said 50% of the companies that try to digitise fail because of the cultural problem.
If we could start up fresh with our culture, as a digital native, as a company.
While we do have incredibly big disadvantages relative to a big car company, we also have advantages.
On behalf of the team, anybody else out there that is fighting for something, we salute you.
And I know that Steve Wozniak is here, so
I just wanted to say, thank you so much for
building the first Apple computer with your
bare hands, what a mighty seed that was.
Thank you!
So there you had some snipplets from Lewis
speech and right after him Steve Wozniak was
speaking on the same stage, the co-founder
of Apple.
And they got to talk in between their speeches
about the future of tech and the future of
mobility.
Here is a clip from Steve Wozniaks speech
just after that conversation.
We were talking about Elon Musk, he is one
of the people I admire very greatly.
The Tesla model S is the first time I said,
the first successful car company in the United
States since 1927.
The Tesla really was the seed that caused
it all to happen.
Who would ever build an electric car large?
Turns out that engineering wise, you always
look at the formulas, try to make it small
light weight, low distance, because the expense
of the batteries.
That you can’t justify.
Ok, sorry I would just like to interrupt here
and get Lewis answer on Steve Wozniaks question
why Tesla would make their first electric
car large and heavy.
Yeah, so first of all obviously we agree with
Wozniak and other people, it totally makes
sense, if you’re making an electric car
to make it light and lean.
It just fits electric mobility much better.
Especially if the motivation are environmental
or energy efficiency and so forth.
But as Wozniak said, he did give one example,
a possible solution for why Elon Musk was
doing that.
That was because of his own context that was
back and forth to work, there is plenty of
super chargers, he has lots of kids, he needs
something to keep them safe.
That same logic you could use to explain why
we design this, our vehicle, in this way that
we do.
People like us that wanna have an electric
car but we don’t wanna have a huge electric
car, two tons of machinery is not needed
for my needs or for your needs and our other
market, which is the second family car, a
little car beside your Tesla or something
else, you also don’t need it to be a great
big machine.
It should also be designed for your actual
usage patterns.
But I think the real reason, or the main reason
why Tesla made that electric car in the way
that they did, they said themselves in an
old documentary in fact that I saw many years
ago, basically they said the Tesla model S
isn’t the perfect electric car.
It’s just the one that everybody demands.
The environmental problem is demand driven.
So there is a huge marked that is going to
continue purchasing a premium sedan or just
a normal family sedan.
They are going to keep buying it, the demand
is still there.
So they had to build the same car just make
it significantly better, big and shiny and
looks great and it’s faster than everybody
else but it’s electric.
So regardless of their motivations they could
tilt the market towards an emission free future,
an electric future, obviously.
So they’re just trying to solve a problem.
Big companies, big car companies, or any other
big companies are not there to solve problems.
When you’re mature you are profit maximizing,
it is a legal requirement.
but if you’re a younger company like Telsa
or any other entrepreneurs out there certainly
people like Elon Musk we kind of live for
solving problems.
Thats why we’re here.
And that’s what they were trying to do.
Build a machine that everybody wanted, just
make it electric so they could tilt the market
until the time is right to rethink the entire
machine from the ground up. Of course we think
the time is right now, for two main reasons:
number one, because in many markets in many
parts of the world, here in Europe, Asia certain
parts of America, they are really open to
something new that makes more sense a little
bit more high tech consumer electronics angle.
And secondly: the technology has to be mature
enough and common enough to achieve that.
Yeah, so I think that’s why.
All reasons are grounded in solving problems.
Yeah so I think that makes sense
But anyway lets see what happened when Florian
and Lewis crossed the equator and went to
Australia to see what opportunities Uniti
might have there.
Our guys want to make flying cars too.
So we haven’t only gone to Berlin, Lewis
and our CFO Florian went to Australia.
The reason for this was that in Australia,
recently a lot of factories have been closing down.
This is of course something that the government
would like to prevent and thats where Uniti
comes into the picture, we could actually
help Australia regain their automotive industry
by producing car partly in Australia and thats
why Florian and Lewis went there to discuss
in more depth what this would actually mean
in terms of government support, funding and
timelines etc.
Sorry that you guys couldn’t be here!
So nothing is set in stone just yet.
We are developing these relationships with
these interesting people that we met in Australia
and seeing where we can go next.
So we will update you on how everything went
and where we are going next with this phase
of our company as soon as possible.
I just want to say hello to everyone, back
there in Sweden.
So we are really excited about what is going
to happen in Australia and we are looking
forward to be able to update you on whats
happening there.
However in the meantime we also visited V.T.I.
The Road and Transport Research Institutet
of Sweden to do a collaboration on our Heads-Up-Display,
because the Heads-Up-Display isn’t just
cool or fun.
It can also increase safety dramatically.
For example, lets imagine that you are driving
after your GPS system.
Then normally you would have to look out and
then look down on you GPS and then look out
again, during the time you look at your GPS
you loose track of whats happening out on
the road.
But with the Heads-Up-Display this can all
be avoided and you can keep your eyes on the
road at all time.
And thats not the only safety feature that
heads up display has, you can also highlight
objects that cross your vehicle path, making
you more aware as a drive than in a traditional vehicle.
And the reason VTI is doing this with us is
that they have lots experience of creating
Physical simulators
So we would create a physical prototype of the Heads-Up-Display
in a car and then be able to verify the various safety increases of the H.U.D.
So we are closing in on Linköping where we are going to visit VTI The Road and Transport Institute in Sweden.
So they do research for various organisations.
How was it? Scary, really scary.
So those were the current simulators at VTI however they are building a custom one for us.
And this was it for this episode and we know
that summer is coming up but we will not stop
working here, so you will see another episode coming out soon.
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