In today’s show, we examine the role of platforms in micromobility’s rise, and what role they might play in furthering adoption.

Specifically, we cover:

• What an entry into the micromobility space might look like for Apple, and how their experience in interface stepchanges puts them at a unique advantage

• How autonomous cars are analogous to wormholes vs. a more tactile engaging experience of the world with micromobility.

• What a platform built on a micromobiltiy fleet might look like, and what it might enable, and what names we might give to these experiences in the same way that cars have crusing, drivethrus and cinemas.

• The stage of the market, and the parallels to the Playstation vs Xbox argument

• How the network effects of micromobility sharing platforms are inverse to the traditional car infrastructure

• Horace introduces his new research paper looking at modal shifts with the introduction of e-mobility in a cities transport mix.

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