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I'd like it not to run over people!

I just had a baby girl. I expect I won't have to worry about her on the road at 16 as much as my mother did, with cars compensating for modern driver distractions

One of the huge challenges with driverless cars is the lower tolerance for mistakes. Even if autonomous vehicles reduce fatalities by 80%, the moment a robot kills someone...

I cycle a lot. People are terrible drivers. I'd be much more comfortable with predictable machines.

Like the suggestion they might reinvigorate the british pub industry...

@KristerNicole Unless the 2025 world allow only cars in the road, there still will be pedestrians, dogs, kids playing, cyclists (more and more), mopeds on the roads... and those won"t be software driven.

I’d love to have the option to drive on weekends, and let the car drive my commute

Totally - but you may be confined to the track

@bookofthefuture and boost birth rate?

@bookofthefuture Will we need to justify if we drive our cars ourselves in the future?

Absolutely - to your insurer primarily

what happens when someone types in Uzbekistan and sends their drunk, passed-out mate off in a car?!

How would you like to unlock your car in 2025; thumbprint, retina scan, DNA test?

maybe you will have to pay more for your insurance if you drive yourself?

To the point where self driving is very much a luxury

Of course most of us won't actually own our own cars, so insurance won't be ours - and nor will the choice

Though that will be later than 2025

Maybe software add-ons will enforce security and give you insurance bills discounts

What means do you think will secure connected cars and prevent them from being hacked?

They certainly need to be more secure than they are today...

@bookofthefuture For some people, owning and driving a car will still be important, it will stay a mean of self-expression

It might be important but you'll have to be wealthy. Insurers are good at pricing risk. As volume goes down, exception prices likely to rise.

The ability to securely upgrade software embedded in the cars will be key to improve security

@FredMartinent Agree. This "Evolutionary security" will be key for IoT. We all use it with our computers today.

That's a great phrase - how much will the software itself respond to threats and evolve?

Connected Self enables patient empowerment and prevention. Shouldn't we be more empowered to take better control of our data, too?

Indeed

Yes for a very small fraction of transactions

Cash will be there for a long time but contactless is making incredible progress after a slow start

Bear in mind there will still be people in the workforce born in the 60s

what's happening in the London transportation is the right way. 1 million contactless transaction a day, no ticket, no waiting at the machine, no friction, whatever your country/language

What will be the preferred payment device in 2025? Cards? SmartPhones? Wearables? keyfobs? else?

my mother does not have a mobile phone, does not want one. it will take time for a part of the population.

Think the days of cash/coins are numbered. Think it'll take a little longer than 2025, but soon enough around that time I reckon we'll see more and more contactless/mobile payments.

wearables are a likely candidate

Clothes. You'll have a collection of pins that you can slip in that only work in a radius of your device

@PierreMetivier Consider the ageing population. In 10/20 years, the older population who refuses to embrace technology may no longer be around. It's a matter of time before adoption takes off.

I personally believe there will be a tipping point where society will want physical value from their currency again.

mobile for a while. gives you some (sort of) controls.

@FabioVirgi_ Arguably we are the older generation. We need to be creating the future that we want when we are old. When our hearing & eyesight has declined, when we can't feel our fingertips any more, when we can't think or react as quickly.

Cash replacement by digital payment is a huge opportunity if you consider the share of cash in worldwide payments

And cash is really expensive to handle - it's just the costs are hidden

@FabioVirgi_ 80/20 rule, older people die, technology progress, a part of the population is always behind, whatever the period. can't leave them behind.

I'm not keen to see the end of cash per se, but it is inevitable at some point.

@technokitten Which is exactly why I think cash/coins are going to be replaced by mobile/contactless payments. It's easier to control, less susceptible to loss or theft and for an older person, far easier to use IMO.

Wearables - connecting securely and unobtrusively to the things and people around..

Do you think there will be a demand for anonymous contactless payment and if so, what technology is needed to achieve it

@PierreMetivier I'm by no means implying that we "leave them behind". Simply saying that you either embrace change, or you fight against the tide. If everywhere takes contactless payments and nowhere takes cash, you'll inevitably be forced to conform.

@FabioVirgi_ in fact, some places in the world (including in France) don't have / will never have 3/4/5G because there is no economic reasons to do so, and all the technology we're discussing is useless in these remote areas.

@FabioVirgi_ not when you can't see properly (you can feel coins and notes) and you can't feel properly (it's hard to get your card out of a purse or wallet). It's easy for us. We have all our faculties. We won't when we're 90.

@FabioVirgi_ I have an elderly mother who I spend a lot of time with. Accessibility is a big deal and we're not talking about it nearly enough. Unless you experience this stuff directly, it's very hard to imagine & you end up making wrong assumptions

@PierreMetivier I agree with you wholeheartedly on that point. Plus the younger generation has little or no experience of older people's usage so can't design for it. It's beyond their current capabilities. #a11y