My Cognitive autoMOBILE Life Digital Divorce from a Cognitive Person
Only ten years ago driving was about horsepower, style and comfort -- people said they loved their cars. Today, we can see the transformation in the automotive industry including ridesharing and carsharing with the new concepts of mobility and motion chan
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Cognitive autoMOBILE Life Digital Divorce from a Cognitive Personal Assistant
My Cognitive autoMOBILE Life
Sebastian Wedeniwski • Stephen Perun
My Cognitive autoMOBILE Life Digital Divorce from a Cognitive Personal Assistant
Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, Singapore
Stephen Perun International Business Machines North Augusta, South Carolina
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Foreword by Helmuth Ritzer
Our relationship with cars is a highly emotional, almost an irrational one. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the car was a sign of freedom, wealth and status. For many of my generation, owning a car was considered a major milestone in our life. When the oil crisis happened in the 1970s, I was a little kid and I remember asking myself if I would still be able to drive my own car. Fast-forward more than 30 years. Meanwhile working in the automotive industry, I had another eye-opening moment during the financial crisis in 2008. For the first time in my career, I experienced a 30–40% decrease of car sales. What was typically a one-digit fluctuation in worldwide car sales completely changed from 1 day to the next. Even though the automotive industry wasn’t part of the crisis, the car had lost its importance for many people who were impacted by the crisis. For many people, cars simply were
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