It's Electric! The Electric Car Show With Afeez Kay

Afeez welcomes Peter Miller to It’s Electric for part 1 of a 2 part conversation about autonomous cars, traffic, psychology and city design. Peter trained as a computer scientist and set up a business in process control and instrumentation. He’s done businesses in a few industries since, including one within the transportation industry. He rides an electric unicycle daily, and his family car is a Nissan Leaf.   In This Episode Why cars don’t have great geometry The psychological impact of cars Why autonomous cars are a bad idea Portable electric transportation is an exciting prospect to city planners Smart cities are an important part of an electric future   “It was a great idea to have a valve radio, when no one had invented the transistor radio” “The carpark for a restaurant will be far larger than the restaurant” “You don’t have enough capacity for everyone to drive” “The electric motor scales down in a way that the internal combustion engine does not”   Tune into Part 2 next week!   More Afeez! Instagr