Than trying to get from one place to another and of the only one traffic is a growing concern in many large cities across the globe small technologies can help us solve this calles how exactly thats all a topic on shift today. Out to many still use cars as their main mode of transportation aside from air pollution and the Climate Crisis this also has a huge drawback more and more traffic jobs in paris for example drive us to stock bumper to bumper about 165 hours a year mall and you thats nearly a solid week in your car honking at strangers but probably not for long in the autonomy passengers can use the drive to do something much more productive i for one wouldnt mind brushing up on my friends. But for this data there are still a lot of things left to work out and the biggest challenge developers still face is humans. Driverless cars use their versions of sense of stick control themselves autonomous like. But so far these cars have merely recognize a pedestrian those objects of motion. Systems are unable to calculate pedestrians unpredictable behavior or to properly understand their body language. London based tech company humanizing autonomy and other Research Institutes are working to develop models for Human Behavior and traffic. This data will hopefully then train autonomys cars. So humans very complex especially when we come to cities we can treat them with normal motion timing were going to our expertise is in combining behavioral psychology with statistical and deep learning. Protest rience 2 its important to be able to communicate with an Autonomous Car the normal eye contact and gesturing will help. Developers are working on interfaces that could be used to signal to pedestrians whether or not they can cross the street by using light signals in the windshield for instance. Theres a problem the protests train behavior and nonverbal communication differs around the world. If you look at for example in meaning. No one will jaywalking. Where you come to london people are jaywalking all the time the great thing about vegas today and of course theyre trying to update us on feature is that you know their vehicles know where they are and we have a mission that for each of these places it would be a different set of models that would be used but each of these spaces and these models would be fine tuned specifically for that road. Clearly theres still a long way to go and thats what experts from all around the world gather regularly to discuss future Mobility Solutions like at berlins effects rachel one main topic is how can a driverless car seat or more specifically which sensors does it need to recognize and respond to its surroundings as well as to be expected teslas in the mosque has a very strong opinion on that matter lets take a closer look. At autonomys cars and cameras to ultra sound and radar to analyze their surroundings as well as the more modern lidar sensors that use lasers. And people who design certain. These different types of sensors because radar and lidar can calculate the distance to objects very accurately but they dont capture enough details to recognize what these objects really are when it comes to humans its the camera thats best equipped to detect what their intentions are so ok are they about to cross the road or not you know i just wasnt you know what i mean. The industrys Top Companies are increasingly setting their sights on light on technology which stands for light detection and ranging here the sensors attached to the car send millions of laser impulses every 2nd this creates a precise 3 d. Image of a surrounding objects Tesla Basilan musk recently ruffled some feathers when he said lighter was too expensive and that cameras radar and ai systems would suffice tesla uses only radar radio waves are used to measure an objects distance and speed using this data and the camera images a 3 d. Image of the surroundings is then created with the help of ai. Flowing on pity roboticist and manufacture of lidar systems disagrees with the on must. Be. The problem is that cameras dont offer direct information about distance and radio isnt high rez so theres missing information this means you need another source of information to be able to navigate say. The question here is can you said cost and safety and i think one im absolutely against this in my opinion mobility needs to be completely safe which also means using the best census the best and then zone. By the way experts believe one out of 10 cars on the road in 2030 will be self driving some are already hitting the streets today like this adonis bus at a clinic in florida during the corona pandemic sept i think of a whole new advances they can help minimize the spread but they said just precursors to truly a ton of those vehicles where a passenger only needs to punch in the destination turn over the engine and then lean back and relax. But do we really want to let a robot take the wheel is it even safe and who makes the better drive out man. Dimensions i think humans are very good drivers but machines a better father is not like their actual driving is better in every situation but theyre always paying attention you get distracted by the fire in Oregon Ice Cream or drink coffee and that is the problem humans just always paying attention and machines of programs always be attentive which is why theyre better drivers april than c. E. O. Of the long if this event. Is a moment is going to the moment its definitely humans who are the better driver seen as the machine offers good support especially in emergencies but humans are definitely better than when and in the future it will definitely be the machines the advantage of an Automated System one is that its always activated it has a 360. 00 degree view and its crucial for the city and it has a general understanding of the situation as one of the other road users planning to do and. Right now i would definitely say man in the city for sure. But man makes lots of mistakes and this. Led to and continues to lead to lots of injuries and that in cities themselves im optimistic at the end of feature we will have Automated Systems that create a safer and more Pleasant City for already exists. How could a robot possibly be a better driver that was. Joking aside how different intelligence does have some obvious advantages it never gets tired of distracted and it always keeps it cool i wish i could say the same about myself either way robot vehicles console the issue of in the city congestion on the all they need additional digital assists Light Software they can factor in my preferred mode of transportation for my Current Location and the time of day to find the quickest most efficient way to get where im going next but at the institute have teamed up with great minds across europe to develop just that. Team as a smart Navigation System for all. Road users cars bikes buses and trucks its a project thats designed to regulate the entire traffic and help everyone to reach their destination faster. The sat nav supplies information on traffic jams and makes recommendations. For instance what speed the driver will need to travel at to make the next green light the i need here there is a real challenge in Traffic Management us to understand the needs of all road users trying to get from a to b. Then this needs to be analyzed and reconciled with whats actually possible within mobility in the future i could definitely see new technology helping us to react in a more dynamic way. Team would send data to Traffic Management centers while it simultaneously navigates road users Traffic Management would then be able to react to the various situations immediately they could adjust traffic like durations and speed limits change the bus schedule at short notice divert heavy traffic on to unused bus lanes and much more these decisions would have to be made visible on the street you would immediately. Move if i say traffic lanes will be used more dynamically than i have to think of a way to do that maybe with l e vs or something what can i bring into the space to make it more dynamic. Virtual traffic lights could be an option if there are lots of cars maybe we need a traffic light but if the road is quiet then this could simply be displayed in the individual vehicle and for us to go. If concepts like these can reduce traffic in berlin and other cities then great but if im being honest the syphon node in me was hoping the future of mobility would look a little cooler like flying cars lucky for me that already research is out there working on some crazy new ideas check these are. The flywheel is an autonomous lead driving vehicle which could replace cars the wheels can be connected to one another to. Longer units. Are designed to use existing subway and railway tunnels as a form of collective transport and then they can disconnect again to bring the passengers to their exact destinations the idea came from an architect. Just think it is i dont think of the fi world as a form of motorized private transport like a car but its not a public transport either by the subway it is something in between takes the best of both worlds and create something new which weve called a collective Mobility System elective religion since. The fall of copters an electrically powered autonomys flying taxi that can bring passengers to their destination much quicker than other means of transport. The developers aim to reduce the number of vehicles on the road whilst also reducing air pollution. And this is the hybrid of hard to choose through to almost at the speed of sound the idea came from tech visionary musk in 2013 the era sucked out of the 2 creating a vacuum which with barely any Wind Resistance propels the passenger capsules to speeds up to 1200 kilometers an hour developers around the world are currently working on hyperloop projects a 2 hour car ride say from abu dhabi to dubai would take just about 12 minutes. With that i might even enjoy commuting to work every morning but it remains to be seen in real goals like these would be a bailable to the wider public if they remain toys for the super rich or whatever happens expose all around the world are working hard on the future of mobility if i had my way id hop off my balcony directly into my flying car then use a bike for example and the bike. The future of mobility how do you imagine it what would you would. To see let us know what you think i cant wait to hear your ideas thats it for me for today see you next time. I. Can see a walk through quite high and then crashed. On 6 meter was one bill and regarded as a model businessman bankers and politicians contributed to his success. The scheme would never have worked and the banks hadnt played along there is no way. Big money big surprise this story of a german car. Next on t w. Zs been robbed of their soul thats what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. Countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. These things left movies that have yet to feel what should be done with the stolen art from africa. Stolen sold. In 45 minutes on d w. Im not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am placed on nothing with me but i have been thinking deep into the german culture shock. You dont seem to take that as grandma day out to you because its all about who had enough time rachel join me to meet the japanese of course. This is the story of a man who was very good at selling things that didnt exist. Manfred shmita was at the center of the biggest financial fraud case in postwar german history. He served 6 years in prison for his crimes. At the height of his tower big money had his own jess his own airfield and several luxury hands. Politicians gathered around him. Banks lend him huge amounts of money nothing was too good for him. We wanted to find out how he managed to scam billions in a complex pyramid scheme. To date month meter lives on mediocre where he retired after he got out of prison. Smita wants to keep his family out of the street pulls his exwife and 2 children live in switzerland all media grew up in castle where his father was a businessman he discovered at an early age that he had a talent for making money out loud we met him at one of his favorite restaurants near palma. On one of. Course i was always ambitious i wanted to have a job i was for call when i was in college i sold cars and 1st to be w. s and then mercedes you have me say 3 more that when i was 16 i sold wife insurance after school for the 1st year i worked bird. Company that was owned by the father of one of my friends who. I always wanted to have something to do but at some point i took a wrong turn. And i either didnt notice at the time or realized it too late. America. Prosecutors say that need as company flow text cheated banks and Leasing Companies out of more than 4000000000 monks. I know toughman was one of the prosecutors in snead us case documents used as evidence at his trial stored in this basement room at the Prosecutors Office in mn haim. Hoffman carried out extensive interviews with smita we asked him what drove shmita to commit these crimes. At 1st he didnt have a lot of friends at school. But at the age of 16 in the mid 1960 s. He got a moped and got 50 yards from me didnt none of the other kids had one more peter thought and he used that moped to make friends with more hot. He wanted to be popular thought on things you know. And i think that was a basic component of his character and weve done plenty constantly sought the approval of others 50 einsteinian. Month which meet up founded shows hanks in 1994 and became enormously successful as the next several years. Also forced on france and germany could be pretty intimidating he was always very well dressed with a tailor made suits and a rolex on his wrist. A very impressive and. The other muslim he takes everything he does to extremes. When he goes after Something Else for a chase is it like a terrier until he gets a tell. The boy who started out with a moped had made it to the top and now owned a fleet of luxury cars. In 1909. His 50th birthday with a gun a event at races stated to him back on the outskirts of cazorla. Downtown and im glad you agree invited about 300 people politicians Business Executives sports stars anybody who is anybody by the lord is int he then im a lot of people were dying to get an invitation. It was the event of the year in the state of baton rouge my bag and it went about building a. Meter lived a life of luxury a private jet with gold faucets. Villas all over the world anything florida youre a guy and some of. The island 3 yes the largest was 55 meters long. From the sultan of brunei. Cuts not to his extravagance was excessive. On the one hand that sort of lifestyle makes some people envious not really of their i know on the other hand envy is the highest form of recognition night if the former and meter used his position to win approval from people and. Become not the. He had all the toys that anyone could want an old a huge collection of beautiful cars yachts jet aircraft. And even had his own airport who else has that little show. Which took months to visit the airfield that he used to and its now the cars who were brought in bought in international airports. For this record shmita agreed to visit some of the places that played an Important Role in his life as he made his way to the tunnel. He used to come here often at one time he had 2 private planes and a helicopter parked here. He built his Business Empire on a Technology Concept that he discovered in the late 1980 s. A u. S. Company called flown well developed a horizontal drilling system so that utility lines could be laid without causing a lot of environmental damage. Munford adept at this idea and convinced banks and Leasing Companies to invest in it. No wonder the so since we were convinced that this was a great system and the banks thought so as well. They gave us 20000000. 00 to develop the equipment we neednt young on the some of the narcan market shrader promoted his concept with expensive at that step were broadcast on prime time german t. V. Stuff they had gaslight and him on the nose were doing it underground would put it underground without taking out you know if its a new system. But the commercials were deceptive in fact the drilling machines didnt. Rocks and existing lines got in the way. So she does this never really got off the ground but he managed to convince investors that his company was turning a profit. We actually started out piecemeal. Its not like my partner and i actually planned to rip people off. And we believed in this concept of. A fall we wanted it to be a success so we manufactured statistics that appeared to make it a success we were counting on future sales and thats how we came up with this system and if this is the man the banks were delighted to help finance this project. Because. At the height of the scandal smita had convinced investors that his company had more than 3000 drilling machines but in reality they were just under 300. To keep and keeping the scheme going to scale as a salesman. And he can be very charming. If youve known him a long time like i have thats those who are less impressed by. But most people were taken in by a charm and to put it bluntly. My guns so no. Smita hasnt flown over his former Company Headquarters in the early 2 decades. Today were taking the same routes that he did back then. We were right over it. It would have been a short trip by car but me there preferred to take the chopper. Book its faster and no traffic jams either. I think. He often took investors along the helicopter was on call 24 hours a day right over it you know. Just to feel that were going to learn. Right there where those containers are. Worked in in the seriously appointed office hes come a long way from selling used cars for a living. This is where he built the Business Empire that turned out to be little more than a house of cards. And it came crashing down on february 4th 2000. Police arrested months which meta at his office. For most of his employees this development came as a complete surprise. It was on a friday afternoon when most of the work has were getting ready to go home. Start farming criminal and so it was the police and some tax investigators i could hardly believe that im against on those but i was shocked its its when. Thats that they wouldnt be here if they didnt have a good reason to. Police and officials from the Prosecutors Office carried out boxes full of evidence this was shaping up to be the biggest case of financial fraud in postwar german history. 2 decades later this is all that remains of the flow tech sign on top of this building. The company that had been the darling of bankers and politicians went out of business in late 999. This is the 1st time that shmita has been back here since flow techs collapsed. The frantic call but its a very strange feeling to be here after 18 years and 2 weeks of the river here to come. On have this one call for i could still see the place in my mind but now that im actually here its difficult for me to look back at everything that happened with a listener my overview posse of the rest. Of the story with that was the hardest day of my life. He hasnt been back here since the day he was arrested. Of the so this was mrs lobs office my secretary. Its almost hard to believe that this is the place wish me to i made all of his deals. This is really difficult. Most of us are desk. Over here right there. Alone i feel like im in a movie right now and. Before this im glad that i came back here though so that i can somehow is close this chapter of my life. But its not easy and thought. Id like to leave now. The flow tax system worked for 5 years smita kept selling machines even though most of them existed only on paper. He created an elaborate business for a song to fool his investments. We took a creative approach when the Bank Auditors wanted to see some drilling machines and wed switch the identification plates. And show them as much equipment as they wanted the models with the machine and the holocaust and he got same boards and. They kept some of the machines in this warehouse officials from the banks and Leasing Companies had a look around and was satisfied. They came in and broke down the id numbers of his and check them against the list they had at the office just me and they all matched up. So they also look at the id plates wed see and they checked out as well. And im to deploy a kidney and before that is basically how we did it. So this could get out and. Everything seemed fine. To mention at the end of the day he was probably pleased to see how easy it was to deceive people the mood of life to have. It all seemed so easy almost a sure thing smita kept playing his shell game with the drilling equipment and the banks kept lending him money after all he had to make the monthly lease payments even if the machines existed only on paper. Frank loesser says. It was a classic pyramid scale and it worked at 1st because he used the new loans to pay off old creditors. But then things got out of hand and it became more and more difficult to control it should be to harden when this violent ended and we got to the point where he had to come up with 60000000 marks a month just to make the leasing payments using. No more not less begins if you. Thats me to manage to convince the banks to keep giving him money on. The banks made big profits with these flow text deals and guns and all my warm year to many good food he and the camp and the bank. Branches were competing with each other to get his business. All in the scheme would never have worked in the banks had played along absolutely not theres no way. That this was. Deliberately kept his meetings with Bank Executives source he preferred to spend his time flying them around in his helicopter and treating them to some swiss meals. Through car from flying out to the airfield near serving and then celebrate with a big lunch. Called the liquid lunches for knives that everyone drank a lot of alcohol. Maybe he was trying to get his gas to be a little less cautious hardly. Seemed. Sometimes theyd fly to the nearby alsace region to sample the excellent local wines or hed invite bankers and Business Partners to his yacht or one of his finance. Shuffle. And i created situations where i could demonstrate my success to the outside world that was very important for me a few months but i didnt write people out to the yard through them take them to dinner so i had the thought and these displays of success became part of the Business Model and because i had to do it that keep this game going. To me think more cup would get into. The 996 smita bought himself an airfield a former Canadian Military facility near baton baton. The powerful state politician helped him to arrange the deal the honorary chairman of the didnt duck Free Democratic party. Recommended with the German Government should sell the airfield and at a reasonable price to about 38000000. 00 marks. When he also arranged for us to get a government subsidy provided that we got final approval and started light operations. On that was a great deal for us so we went ahead with it. Deliberately made a point of according to all the titians who could help him grow his Business People who could open doors for him. Toads or and m. Will oh boy included youre going more like it into a respected politician who knew everyone. Moves. Through more like who he met a lot of important people and so it was a smart move for him to make some dhamaal. To shop talk. Show mido also started building a new flow tex headquarters complex at the airfield leading politicians attended the groundbreaking ceremony including the state premier at the time having to fly for. All. The guests were impressed with his model of the proposed new facility. Media made a promotional video. For hero from here will tackle the projects of the 3rd millennium. Media claim that this new facility would bring prosperity to the region. The state premier teufel took the controls of an excavator at a ceremony to mark the start of construction. But for this report none of the politicians who worked with smita wanted to talk to us about him. After all its a very old story. So obviously shmeat amid the media enjoyed being around politicians and they enjoyed being around him who it was and it was like they acknowledged each others importance can be shown the. Leader bill is a former bottom of it and back interior minister who later chaired a state Parliament Committee that investigated the flow text scandal. At this point questions were already being raised about the companys finances but prosecutors and the tax authorities didnt. Person 1st a guess perhaps because of all the powerful politicians who willing to shmita. He knew a lot of people in the State Government including the premier mr bowser so he must be an important guy if he wasnt. That had nothing to do with him and hes not really that influence the decisions made by the author are it is its not like they said im not going anywhere near that case but they did see that they had to be careful because a few metres status of our small pool Maintenance Committee for city center. In july 999 mido through a huge party to celebrate his 50th birthday heres a picture of the official invitation and the guest list. 300. 00 people were invited it was an event that no one wanted to miss. Among the guests was former bottom there some back state premiere date they gave the opening speech and. The festivities took place at smead us 2 and dad estate. He and his family lived there until easter rest in february 2000. Microsoft my biggest mistake was that i used my Financial Resources to create an image of success for me to provide not only for the outside world but also for me personally i wanted people to envy me. And when people are jealous of you and you crash and burn they all cheer for him to help. Me on the way to month meet as former estates at 2 and back near cuz. The prophecy covers 60000 square meters. Back then he believed that he deserved to live in a place like this among. Them when i look back at those times i cant believe that i didnt realize how serious things have become. The whole thing kept getting bigger and bigger and i just went along with it this is me and mark was with. Me to says that he was caught up in a spiral of events that he could not escape with. You only have one goal and youll do whatever it takes to achieve it you lose your sense of right and wrong and you do some things that are wrong and are called not merely questionable. If you do things that are illegal but you dont care anymore if you look at this fall from. Behind these rules months me to entertain to sketch and impress them with his wealth but many of his friends from back then are long gone. They came to my parties and had a lot of fun for me its on them but when the whole thing collapsed they disappeared on the. M gold when he lost everything including the yachts those people didnt want to have anything to do with him. We wouldnt call them friends that would have one of those one so long argument. Hot when youre rich and powerful people like to be around you. But if you get into trouble no one wants to know you. Them its a tool. To drop down a little that would be great. Its hard to believe that man for me to manage to get away with this scheme for so long but the bigger it costs the more people believed him. Not to really define what it was all based on power and influence and money and. It was like he was too big to fail maybe some people thought he was but no one seemed to doubt that the company was profitable than the end of technique and if most money of all was money he said to himself as i have to show my family in the state about written back that i can be successful as a scholar. And thats just what he tried to do you know what us out there in the town. For a time month french media was able to convince people that he was a model entrepreneur. He attracted politicians his thought that he could be useful to them and bankers who thought that hed make them a lot of money. Today he regrets what he did. The you shave it into a fit bank can give you is the primary victims were the banks not any private Individuals Bank and just the banks of the help and human flesh to squeeze out i do have a guilty conscience and if this does for us what we did was wrong consider walk the floor im low quite high and then crashed and its all my fault good to align my dish i cant blame anyone else and give me the but most of all of the course and im sorry about how this affected my family because id made them feel miserable to sabotage to stop. Him. Going. Theyve been robbed of their soul thats what a people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. Countless cultural artifacts were brutally stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. To lift wounds that have yet to shield what should be done with the stolen or from africa. Stolen soul. 15 minutes on d w. O. Cutting through the noise. 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