on earth. i think the city of the future is going to be based on people walking to where they live, to where they work and to where they play. reporter: and if you aren t walking, city director tony malo says you can take a magnetically controlled car wherever you go. this is the car? yeah, this is a personal rapid transit. this is how you get around the city. driverless, electrical, solar powered. it comes when you want it and takes where you want to go and leave it alone. reporter: so it s driverless. yes. navigating the city is relatively easy. this is a dream of what the future could be. but is it really going to happen? i mean, is this going to be anything more than a demo. it s a model for open development. but it s really sustainable, because it s not only environmentally sustainable, socially and economically. reporter: fewer than 500 people live here. that falls far short of the original goal of 40,000 by next year. a goal set at the peak of the economic boom.
be done anywhere? we went to the united arab em rids for a city of tonight s city of tomorrow. about 20 miles outside abu dhabi. it will be based on people walking to where they live, work and play. and if you aren t walking, the city director says you can take a magnetically controlled car wherever you need to go. this is a little car? this is a person rapid transit this is how you get around the city. it s electric and solar powered. it comes when you want it and takes you where you want to go and leave it alone. so it s driverless? yes. navigating the city s 2.4 square miles is relatively easy. this is a dream but is it really going to happen? the it going to be more than a demo? it s a model for open development but enviromental
manual overdrive. but how do you get it? i can t tell from the picture but i believe it is near the dashboard. so who is responsible? what is the name of it again? driverless. no further questions. well, look at him. the whole purpose of this is not to need a driver. which means it is the machine. it is the manufacturer, it is the software designer, software engineer. it is everybody, the programmer, it is everybody in the stream of commerce. but you have to tell the program where you re going, right? you punch in an address, i assume. you punch in an address, you have to sit in a certain way and trigger the sensors. look, we all have cars with the air bags. if you sit sort of on the side the air bag gets deactivated. i don t go in any vehicle that is tinier than me, which would account for a lot of vehicles. but look, there is no way that i
you re not sitting dead center they can get a little strange and distorted. remains to be seen how well curved screens go. jenna: someone that works on television, you want people to see clearly but not that clearly all the time as we adjusted some of our makeup because of that. glen, let me ask you a little bit about the driverless cars. we ve seen these before. we ve done several stories on them. will we see something similar to the televisions we might see them become more mainstream in the technology and more available to the little guys out there? most definitely so. actually, the big change that is coming in the next year, this year and the next two or three years is that, driverless cars will change from the, the sort of experimental technology, the way that you see it as in the google driverless cars going around on roads and essentially they re performing a grand experiment there. what is happening now is real cars, consumer cars, that you can buy will start having this
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