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2 Human Needs
2.1 Seamless Transportation
If you are going to travel from place A to B, do you want to change the means of
transportation? No. You wish to stay on the same transport, no matter what may
come up on your way. What you want is an easy and seamless transportation. We
invented cars, ships, etc. separately because it is much easier technologically for us
to tackle the problem separately. If we narrow down the conditions and boundaries,
problem solving space becomes smaller and make problem solving much easier. If
we consider land alone, it is by far easier than to invent all-in-one transportation.
Such individual response bene
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ts the inventor and consequently the producer but
certainly not the user. If you are a traveler, your basic needs is to move from A to B
easily without any trouble. If it is a car, excellent driving capabilities is second in
priority. Changing transportation is undoubtedly troublesome. To answer such basic
needs, transportation industries must team up together to establish a seamless and
cross-modal transportation system. Their redesign and reorganization are called for.
Such seamless transportation is not only desirable, but sometimes it is a must.
Suppose you are traveling in a big country such as US or Brazil. Then even if you can
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fly fromA to B, you cannot go anywhere beyond fromB, unless a car is available at B.
In such a case, an airplane and a car must be integrated into one. The Transition was
developed by Terrafugia, MIT group (“The Transition-Terrafugia”, 2006) (Fig.
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Fig. 3 The transition by Terrafugia
