(2008-05-29) Umair Auto Industry

Umair Haque challenges his readers to come up with ideas to revitalize the Auto Industry.

Some thoughts

• build in technology to let groups of people form their own ZipCar-like clusters for Sharing Goods (ZipCar isn't going to get to the Suburb-s that soon).

  • their financing arms might be able to come up with some good CoOp models

• kill off the dealer network, take a Saturn-like model all the way.

• design physical and systems interface to connect cars into pod for HOV use

May29 update: Umair pulls in the Hacker mentality with hope for Product Quality. And so the anti-strategic logic of making sucky things better often defeats the best laid plans for world domination of beancounters. Just ask Steve Jobs.