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And when we think about global warming on the rise and the auto industry in decline its time the time is right to consider a whole different approach to personal transportation that's both environmentally responsible and economically feasible our next speaker Ryan Chen Hao hails from MIT and his fellow PhD students at the smart cities group are working on I've got to get this right a foldable stackable shareable electric city vehicle it rethinks urban mobility please join me in welcoming Ryan Qin thank you today's automobile weighs over 20 times that the driver and often if you look at a comfortable chair today the one that you're sitting in it takes about 10 square feet but an automobile takes over 200 square feet cars gasoline-powered cars typically rest most of the time 80 percent of the time it's being parked taking a valuable urban real estate cars are designed to go over 100 miles per hour even though in cities we drive 25 to 35 because of that we have a real disjoint between what exists and what we don't have and what's interesting also is that 99% of the cars that we use today are petroleum-based used petroleum-based fuels and of course that supply chain is problematic and of course if you think about all the negative externalities of automobile use including congestion and carbon emissions based in our cities we have a real problem now this is not to say or demonize the auto industry in fact the auto industry is a key enabler of our global economy goods and services depend on transportation to really get us around however we think it's a really good time to radically rethink the automobile particularly in cities themselves our group called smart cities at the MIT Media Lab...