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10, 19, 21, 25, 39, 40 and 42 for Ford. I must know more about this boi.

I’m gonna attribute 80% of his development to you at this point my dear!

10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted?

/points at my url/ he that

Honestly he’s pretty average, a bit on the dimmer side. He’s better with emotional smarts and figuring out how people feel than actual physics and book smarts (many Asura have tried to teach him, all will fail)

He’s not flat out dumb but it’s very much a case of ‘not applying himself and finding things like reading boring in comparison to doing things

He’s the genius friend trapped inside your idiot friend

19. What were your character’s deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now?

He strongly believed that everyone just wanted to get along and live in peace, and is still kinda confused as to why everyone seems more focused on being right then living a good happy life.

Now that he’s older, he’s not much better, but a recent one is the idea that if he’s a good person and does good things, good things will happen - it’s more been morphing into that thing where he believes if he gets too happy the universe will dish out some damage to counteract that, so he tries to stop from getting too happy.

21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate?

Ford has pretty good manners - he’s very paranoid about offending people and honestly learnt all of his manners from watching Trahearne and Kasmeer (know that party during Season 2? He hung around Kas and just copied her the entire time), so he’s very polite if a little overly polite. He does however, drop those polite manners a little too quickly - i.e. he’s casual with the Queen and it throws the Shining Hand off their game so badly. The Commander just high fived the Queen, wtf is happening

Hero type, he tends to idolize people who are kind and charismatic and calm under pressure (everything he wants to be), so, again, mainly Kas and Trahearne - he also lower key idolizes people who take no shit and aren’t afraid to speak their minds without being nasty - like Jory, Braham and Tiami - I’m just realizing he’d totally have hero crushes on Dragon’s Watch when he first met them what a dork

Hate wise, he’s pretty generic - Nightmare Court, Joko, Assholes in general tned to get on his shit list pretty quick - he gets really annoyed by Charr renegades and human separatists and White Mantle members, and does hold a small grudge against any person who mistrusts sylvari (he usually gets except from these on grounds that he’s the Commander and it pisses him off royally)

Also #PuntPhlunt

25. What are their hobbies and interests?

Fordy-boi honestly doesn’t actually have many - he’s just been a fighter his whole life and hasn’t had an opportunity to sit down and see what stuff he’d like - all he knows is he loves to swim and to tend to his mounts and pets. He’d spend his life raising and cuddling baby skyscales if he could (he ‘s the fun parent)

SO I’m gonna list a few things he’d like but isn’t aware of; astrology, fantasy books, mythology, lie-in’s totally count as a hobby I’m a professional trust me, and poetry (particularly slam). If he retires he’d probably take up one high adrenaline hobby like Griffon racing but for now, he’s a lazy boi who likes to nap

39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid?

He’s usually on the receiving end of ridicule so he actually tends to not partake, even if he thinks somethings pretty dumb, like mathematics or geography, he won’t say out-loud. He’ up for ribbing the shit outta his friends though, that’s fair game and he’s out to win the war (he’s terrible at it he can’t snark Canach’s furious and keeps denying they’re related). Usually he’ll ridicule a person as opposed to ideas or things, and mainly does it by complaining about them, making fun of them behind their back (complete with silly voices) and getting angry about their opinions

As mentioned, he finds Maths and Geography pretty stupid, maths more so cuz he can’t understand that shit and will jump out a window to get away from it.He also thinks people who don’t want peace are stupid. And Phlunt

40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one?

He has a wild sense of humour - he laughs at his jokes more than other people do, but he’s a big lover of comedy and LIVES to make people laugh. He’s very good at deadpan humour, and has the absolute wildest stories to make people laugh. He’s recently developed a very nihilistic sense of humour with a lot of jokes that are very millennial humour that has the others a little worried, on the flip side he once responded to something by muttering “What you gonna do? Kill me?” and Jory snorted her drink out her nose

42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain?

Apart form all their loved ones back to live, safe and healthy. He’d honestly kill for things to jsut be peaceful and quiet for once. He wants to raise baby skyscales in peace and coddle them all but he can’t cuz people keep stating conflicts and expecting them to solve him (although he does appreciate the fluffy jumper @likemesomesalads)

#That Chris Ramsey link tbh is a good point for Ford accent #mytalikes #I didnt know what tf to put for the disillusions

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lnrewlbrj3krj23 · 7 years

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Given social media’s intrusion onto older media, what is a justifiable distribution?

Due to increased media, we know more about each other's lives. From the roaring 20s dime novels and radio, to the 50's baby boomer's tv revolution, so each generation becomes more liberal, realizing the need for recognizing the other. With media, we tell more details about ourselves, and recognize each other.

The degrading of society's morals is in one part, the loss of the image of purity, and very strange "iconographization" of purity. What I means is that purity becomes expressed mainly in images in media rather than in positions of authority and power in real life.

In a way, real life authority, such as God or the King was in everyday life before, until the explosion of media captured those concepts of purity in the stories we describe to one another. How many princes or heros are there, pure of heart in (B)ollywood? How powerful their sense of heart is (either for humanity or a girl, who is another purity), to enable those pure of heart to save the world? And how often does this difference of purity become exploited in porn -- the ultimate image flipper, where the pure are debased?

Is it strange then, to have sexuality, the degrading of society's morals and purity in media all tied together as an obverse triangle? In a strange way, media becomes a distortion of everyday life, an the sense of the everyday becomes a reflection of media. What is in media is not everyday, and what is everyday is not media.

So then, this continues on, from books into social media today, except that with so much distortion, we discover that we cannot know the everyday without stories. The cycle of knowledge is accelerated as we start to learn about the nature of knowledge through the refinement of stories.

Take the "young millennial who narrates his own adventure", a genre stemming from the likes of ferris bueller. In such a story we learn about what's very important to the narrator. Such narrow cuts (haircuit, girl, car, habits) form the sense of self. This narrative too gets played, as a moral tale that can lead to bizarro fiction, media wrapped in porn and very odd priorities in life due to strange configurations of social context, such as The Haunted Vagina.

Media distorts morals by distortedly representing who we are to ourselves. We can be anything we like, especially via the media we choose to share This relates to power because if all the interesting stuff happens though our favorite media, doesn't real life become a shadow of what is online?

Is this not the dilemma that faces current humankind? That we are absorbed with the inessential? The appearance of a loss of power is the loss of our ability to be who we are, because we are too focused on what we are not.

A Deal Marker

The image is what the man is supposed to be. Obviously he is "supposed to" because he is not. There is a gap between "is" and "is to be". The infinitive as the fourth form of being, stated by Heidegger is the one that is always becoming due to morality.

[quote about how morality is metaphysical because people will be writing about morality for the next hundred years]

So neo-liberalism was in direct line to the creation of space increasingly powerful media afforded throughout human history. As our technology became better, so we learned more about who we were, until the latent content of history forces a social "weight" passed on by generations. This weight forms the basis of the priorities of each culture, whose horizons is the lineage afforded by nationalism and stories (nationalism is a story).

Thus while the globalist have often been contrasted with the nationalists, the state is but a model/generic name for both nation-states and states of being. It can be said perhaps, then that media is the state of being. And thus the one who is most on it, in theory, has the greatest expression of purpose. But this is a definite limit, as Trump cannot even get congress to pass a vote. It is pretty insightful of Congress to recognize the power of media.

But then again, Congress is the power of media, in part because they are over-recorded and formalized. Buried in the history of all its sessions are honorrings of fallen comrades, procedures, and other kinds of technocratic record keeping. So it makes sense that lawyers, the technocrats of paperwork forms the basis of social change. The state of marriage, or a corporation or a sale of a home isn't a "word" it's an excessively" long document that defines the basis for what ownership is by protecting ownership. The media is still today a legalism that descends from the runic legends that written language is magic. The presence of correct documentation is as much a function of media as social media peddles in cat pictures and other kinds of information humans think is important.

So at most, the damage of media's extensiveness isn't just the rallying of powerful celebrities to incite political rebellion it's also the lack of any actual power Trump seems to have. He can't do deals by intimidating congressmen because they are all lawyers who understand that power is the ability to justify decisions... the most emboddened of which sought to continue the work of other lawyers herself, a lawyer politicianing her way, or a politician who is able to technocrat through law (perhaps a pre-cursor was a Louis Brandeis who first used business as it was current practice to inform the decision making process and thus hide the willfulness of judges. Brandeis helped the metrics of law's ability to hide personal will (and thus also apply it) but was really only part of an already existing tradition of media's power: as William Howard Taft was both President and Supreme Court Justice.

This shows law also in two other aspects of government:

1. In fact Obama is pretty secretive. He is able to hide away his decision making behind the most obscure of reasons, the lack of knowledge. In that way the opposite of business men are lawyers who understand how to control knowledge. The ones who navigate the bureaucracy best are the ones who are able to hide in it, which leads us to

2. Neil Gorsuch who is able to hide personal decisions behind law over other people's lives, and even be proud of it. Neil Gorsuch has tasted power, and so he's willing to continue to exercise it. In that sense, the Republicans are lawyers for their business clients just as Democrats are lawyers for their people (voter) clients.

But regardless, so we find a failure of the status quo system with Politicial Correctness (a kind of lawyer talk) so media of the law kind, like media of the social kind cannot guarantee social change. Perhaps this experiment is what pissed people off, that they felt commonized and disregarded by lawyers. What do lawyers know? They, at least the politician-kind, treated all of the world, politics and business as a matter of a kind of law. (Witness Attacus Finch, a dad who change the world for all. Or studies for defining queer in life, to help justify the lawyers legislate laws about what is or is not queer.) or legislate about what is or is not fair for disability, and thus extort money through law... meant to directly help the very abused. The disability civil rights groups got these laws passed, and now some lawyer use it to justify taking money from businesses.

Law is helpless here too, as politicians can't do the bidding of businesses (or at least small business) because other politicians are afraid disabled voters will "fire them"

The power of media with civil rights can be read thusly: Media allowed generations and people to reach a new agency about who they were. It is as if the narratives and sensory associations of media told us who we were. So that business, symbolic authority (through evil villians, as well) had authority over people, and livelihoods. So they too would gain prestige like kings, and thus be associated enough with that kind of success. So the success of business would be enough acceptable by people to vote Trump into having the symbolic authority to run the country like a business.

This draws a parallel: business hides its power by justifying its inequality. Trump "worked for it", he "deserves" it. Law does the same thing. Gorsuch hides his personal will behind the veneer of legalism. In essence, Gorsuch's ability to get through the Senate hearing to be a Justice depends on his ability to justify his decisions to lawyers who are working on their own interest because their job depends on fidelity to voters (or in some cases, corporations).

And so, it is also law's ability to interfere with society, increasing technocratics the outrage of which, was to extend their media-based justification formalism to Take away a formal land's war-vessel. Was it then a surprise when the field of business through Trump bumped into a catty-corner law reserved for its own super-authority? When business sales and bullying through position and birthright only helped create the veneer of power and authority -- of which being president was used. In essence the president as king is the power media can give a lawyer.

But it's still just image. Republican leadership just forgot they were no longer primarily lawyers working for rich clients. They mistaked the cohesion of their party, their little brand of brothers, for who they were. In essence, reflected in media now: Repubs are afraid of allowing ACA to disappear because they don't work for rich clients. They are more politician than lawyer, wanting to please their voters. In the end, even those who are mostly lawyers believe that the law has to be based in something.

(Note the power of lawyers, to erase the Last Week Tonight story from websites across the world -- esp YouTube -- except in Argentina, where the offense was made.)

Lawyers are the gatekeepers of media. They are the next area to be disrupted by social media, as audiences watch court drama and judge for themselves, to pressure lawyers to keep certain views. As lawyers were able to justify what should be written for everyone (as a politician) so law is really a marker for hiding decisions. Could social media serve that way? Is this not Black Mirror's episode about killer bees run by social media? In essence killer bees are the nature mankind reinvented to save itself from its own destruction of nature. So social media is meant to help people be connected, and instead it damages them.

The scary part is that Trump unveils that politics is just lawyers running around unable to do their jobs, for confusion of who they are. Maybe we then also lose the justification for this government. People want to see Trump fail because he's bad. When he full loses his justification for being President (as deal maker) he may lose his reputation. He believed in his own hype. But if we see Trump fail, the question is, who will step up? Another lawyer for social engineering? This is a lawyer who justifies his authority by an appeal to a perception of a past symbolic authority. Could he possibly work with other lawyers and do what Trump failed to do? Or will this older symbolic authority fail against the same fear that politicians have of their voters? In essence as people stop believing in lawyer-justifications, will lawyers be able to keep order? Social media rips at the veneer of lawyerly justification as laws are ironically too "complex" to be appreciated by the public. That complexity demanded respect before social media was around.

In essence if lawyerly justification in old media is to lose its symbolic authority, the question remains: is a universal justification in new media able to pick up the mantle?

New media got Trump this far, but it shows that Trump's justification (as a deal maker) was weaker than new media's ability to get him to be president. New media's ability is also weaker than the legalese set forth by the founding Fathers and all the lawyers who came after, eager to secure the balance of power that could help them survive... so a democracy of an increased populance (due in part to media's narrativization of being) retain the final say (in terrible mob form), or were the founding Fathers full of their own bullshit? Did they think the media they were creating strong enough to protect them, or weak enough so that the country ran itself under the excuse that the wise and powerful were protecting them?

So we see that justifications run the country. And that we teach each other the excuse of order under these justifications. The justifications are not yet that social media will be used against us who knows how effective this will ever be but that we may become under the influence of social media bots for no coherent reason.

If words could justify power for the most powerful system, one that threatened to create globalism, think about what money can do.

Investors are still going crazy, because young people want homes, and older people are still alive. Information, money and legal authority still justify authority, as authority is anything that changes social and material positioning.

So social media shows us something: first, what we want to see, and then what we didn't want to see. how corrupt some people can be when they are claiming to help others. In this sense, social media is not a tool even if each website is a tool. Social media is a mirror. Each us will see in it who we think we are/the form of our priorities.

The most meaningless thing is the thing that people can see whatever meaning they like in it, so at first we share common ground. Then such a thing literally changes the world by fragmenting it so that we no longer share common ground.

Media has this power to influence people because media is an extension of how humans socialize. Our purpose is to organize, so media in law, and social media have this power, this ability to change reality.

In essence, who/how we think we are will change who/how we are, just maybe not to increase coherency.

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EliteSingles review: A dating site with curated matches, meant for a more mature crowd

There are a *lot* of online dating options these days, particularly dating apps. They all try to stand out in their own way, whether it be catering to a certain niche or type of person, or offering a special feature or service. But the one thing they all have in common: the promise to up your chances of finding that special someone.

SEE ALSO: The best hookup apps for casual daters

EliteSingles is one of those options that claims to have found the online formula for love, particularly for working professionals looking for real relationships. We'll see about that.

EliteSingles is pretty easy to operate. The site matches singles mainly based on a personality assessment modeled after the Five Factor Model theory. Based on your personality and other factors (like age, occupation, and location), the site then sets you up with 3-7 compatible matches per day. This means that unlike sites like OkCupid and Match, you can't peruse the pool for potential love interests but instead have to wait until EliteSingles delivers matches to you.

Once you've matched with people, browse through their profiles. Your options for reaching out are diverse yet simple. You can send a smile (basically an emoji) that lets someone know you're interested, a message, or simply save them to your "favorites" in case you're not ready to reach out quite yet. You get variety in a simple, easy-to-use format.

While this could be good for those who don't have the time to constantly scroll through a dating site and are looking for more of a matchmaker service, those who have grown accustomed to filling the time with swiping through an app in search of a date may become a bit antsy.

Key Features:

Personality profile based on Five Factor Model

Verified profiles (to eliminate frauds and scammers)

Partner suggestions (3-7 matches per day)

Upload/view photos

Send and receive messages to other members

EliteSingles Magazine: A blog that offers tips and tricks for dating

Pricing:

Free basic account: $0

3-month membership: $89.85 / month

6-month membership: $69.95 / month (40% savings)

12-month membership: $49.95 / month (50% savings)

Not for millennials

EliteSingles seems to constantly brag that 82% of their members are college grads. Most of its members are 33-50 years old, so it's definitely geared less toward the Tinder-using generation and more toward those in the "working professional" category. Sorry college kids. This ain't for you.

I originally planned to scroll through the EliteSingles app (because it's 2018), but upon looking for EliteSingles on the app store (I have an iPhone, like the other 45% of cellphone users in America), I noticed it was nowhere to be found.

After some quick research (aka a search in the iTunes store), I couldn't find the app anywhere, and was disappointed. [EDITOR'S NOTE: We've been told that the app is down at the moment for some editing, but it'll be back soon.]

I resorted to using the desktop version on my laptop in the mean time, which made me feel like I was taking part in the early days of online dating before apps made it more socially acceptable for young people to do this stuff. Although since the clientele for this dating site seems to skew older, perhaps the lack of an app isn't the worst thing.

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Making a profile

As if there were any doubt in my mind before, the profile setup process convinced me that we are far from the instant gratification world of Tinder. The EliteSingles profile building process — which includes filling in your basic info plus taking the personality test — is lengthy. But I can get behind a lengthy questionnaire. Its purpose seems logical: the more the site knows about me, the more likely it'll be able to find me a good match, right?

However, filling out the personality test definitely raised some questions for me as far as accuracy goes. Not to mention, some were also repetitive — or just downright awkward to answer.

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In one of the first sections, EliteSingles asks you to rate your own appearance in specific categories, asking how the following attributes apply to you: trendy, attractive, overweight, sexy, and plain. Since questions like these are entirely subjective (beauty is in the eye of the beholder, after all), it seems as though uploading picture should suffice. Shouldn't my potential love interests be able to decide these things on their own?

Getting past the initial awkwardness, some categories raised an eyebrow in a different way. Questions that asked me to determine how "rational," "opinionated," and "selfish" I am seem difficult to answer.

Signing up for a dating site is all about trying to put your best self forward. I hardly believe that anyone — even those who are aware that they're selfish — are going to put their bad traits on display if they can help it. It's the equivalent of choosing the unflattering double-chin photo as your main profile picture.

I filled out the survey to the best of my ability, although it became especially tedious when they started repeating questions. The questions covered everything from my satisfaction with myself, to how I behave in social situations, to how important certain character traits are to me in a partner. All-in-all the whole thing probably took me 30-45 minutes.

At the end, I received a detailed character analysis, which admittedly was kinda cool. It also explained the context behind the analysis and how each of the five categories applies to my life.

One of the drawbacks for the EliteSingles personality test though is that once it's done, you can't go back and tweak it or adjust your answers. All is not lost though, because following the personality test you have an opportunity to showcase your personality through a series of (even more) questions — these ones you fill out so that others can see what you've said in your profile.

Choose from 11 different prompts and put however many you want on your profile, or you can hit "random question" and have the site pick one for you.

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Aside from uploading some pictures — you can add up to 24 and connect to Facebook to pull pictures from there if you'd like — your profile is pretty much done.

What we love about EliteSingles

One word: Options.

Although the dating site doesn't allow you to search willy nilly through all of its users, EliteSingles provides multiple ways to find you a match. The dating site provides you with three main ways to find someone:

Matches: Every day, EliteSingles recommends 3-7 matches that it feels are compatible with your personality. It'll even show you how compatible you are (a score of 100 being a 100% match), as well as show you what things you have in common. We really like the fact that you can filter and narrow your matches based on height, distance, age, etc. So if you only want to see matches over 5'10" who live within 30 miles and have common interests, there's a filter for that.

Visitors: EliteSingles let's you know who's been creepin' on your profile. Hey, it's like the online version of catching the cute guy at work checking you out as you walk by his desk. Something about you caught their eye and made them pay your profile a visit, which can help you feel a bit more confident making the move to say hello. It's a lot easier to make the first move when you already know they're interested.

The Have you Met... feature: We really like this feature. "Have you met..." is basically a pool of candidates that fall slightly outside of your pre-chosen match filters, but still might be a good match for you in the eyes of EliteSingles. Why is this feature so great? Simple. Because sometimes we just don't know what the hell we want or need until it hits us in the face. You can make a checklist of traits that the perfect partner will possess, but do you really want to miss out on Mr. or Mrs. Right just because they're a couple years younger than your selected age range? This feature gives that person a second shot at catching your eye.

Room for improvement

While we did appreciate the detailed personality analysis, we're not completely sold on the accuracy of the results. This is mainly because people bend the truth when they need to look good. Perhaps we'd feel differently if someone were taking the Five Factor on their own out of curiosity, but setting up a dating profile is the time to put together your most impressive resume — not identify your personality flaws and tattoo them across your dating profile. People are filing this out knowing their answers are meant to make them appear attractive, so chances are you're not going to risk sharing something off-putting before you even get out of the gate.

While we love the fact that you can filter your matches based on distance, we think EliteSingles could've done a little better than setting 30 miles as the lowest option. For some, a 30-mile difference is a considerable commitment — especially for a first date. The ability to narrow this down to a smaller area would be especially helpful for people who live in cites. Cities that are filled with professionals. We'd at least like the option to narrow it down further, to 5 miles. (Hey, the entire island of Manhattan is only 13.4 miles long.)

EliteSingles claims to manually verify their profiles to avoid fake accounts, using SSL encryption and fraud detection technology. While this may help them identify scammers, it isn't stopping people from being dishonest on their profiles. I lied about my income and was never flagged, which makes me feel like I probably could've lied about other things, including my educational background, in order to seem more appealing.

While the EliteSingles personality test may be able to find out who you're compatible with, it doesn't focus much on who you're attracted to. The heart wants what it wants, but EliteSingles limits you to seeing only profiles that could be potential matches. So if you have a "type" that EliteSingles doesn't think you're compatible with, you may be out of luck. The flip side to this, of course, is that if you've been unlucky in love, perhaps you could use some help with selecting potential dates whom you may not have considered previously.

What are other people saying about EliteSingles

After reading through scores of reviews, we definitely saw a lot of complaints. Many people claimed that their matches were way off from the criteria they set, with a significant portion of that relating to distance. Others complained of difficulties cancelling their membership and poor customer service.

Datingsitesreviews.com user Jjm wrote:

However, among the dissatisfied users were some glimmers of hope. For example, user Deb from datingsitesreviews.com wrote:

Final thoughts

EliteSingles is far from a perfect dating site. On the plus side, it's focused primarily on professionals who are looking for something real, instead of a lot of other dating apps that cater to younger, hookup-minded audiences. The site was easy to navigate and the personality assessment was a cool feature that helps you learn a little bit about yourself.

On the downside, the sign-up process takes a while. The fact that you have to fill out the entire test before you're able to see what the site's all about could easily be a deterrent for some eager or impatient singles. Requiring users to invest time in the personality investment though can help to weed out people who aren't taking this whole online dating thing seriously. If they've carefully filled out a profile, then you know they're serious about finding a good match.

Also worthy of noting: the free version doesn't really get you anywhere. Without subscribing, you're basically only able to see the fact that you have matches and/or messages. User pictures are blurred and messaging is super limited. Also, from what we can tell from reviews and from our own list of matches, EliteSingles doesn't do the best job of abiding by your set criteria.

EliteSingles boasts over 13 million members worldwide, claiming that an average 2,000 couples pair off every month. Neither of those are small numbers, so if you're willing to put in the time to fill out a profile and risk weeding through some less-than-ideal matches or an annoying customer service experience, who knows, you may land on a gem.

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Speculating the role of ANWB in the future

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Netherlands is one of the leading innovators and adopters of new digital services. In the future, we expect ANWB to have adapted to the everchanging technological, cultural, social demands. Future services will be optimized for the fast-paced life in the city. Predictability security and trust will be essential for delivering customer value and we can see ANWB playing a crucial role for both citizens and businesses.

In 2025, car ownership will be limited to the elite of the citizens. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) will rule the commuting scene with smart self-driving vehicles playing a vital role in the transportation system of the city. The few of those who own a car will be paying a lot of taxes to the government because of future regulations that will be applied to promote the use of MaaS systems in the city.

Individuals who own a private car will use services to share it with others to make extra income and balance maintenance costs. Few will be those who can afford and maintain one for example those that will be into future ‘old-school’ car culture. ANWB will be there for guaranteeing road assistance for all private, shared and public vehicles.

B2B services

Vehicle usership and public car sharing are going to be run by businesses. Services will exist with subscription models that will allow individuals who own a car to share it with others on demand. There will be no more need for owning a vehicle. Excepted are those who can afford one or are into old-school car culture. ANWB will be there for guaranteeing road assistance as long as roads exist and people move from place to place.

Owning cars

Cars will be reaching at your footsteps at the push of a button but you will likely not be their owner. Owning a car always has maintenance costs, and will likely be heavily taxed in the future, so, like today, leasing one can be more beneficial for working individuals. The ability to share the car you own with others - similarly to the AirBnb service - will be normal, safe, easy and profitable to do. Those who have older cars from their families, will likely open them for sharing and rarely use them again themselves. Owning and using a car will be for those who are truly passionate about them, likely from previous generations (Millennials and Generation Z). People will still be free to drive in the city with their cars but they will be paying to the government an amount for every mile they take behind the wheel.

Self-driving vehicles for commuting

People will hardly choose to commute by driving a car. Masses are going to be moved mainly by public transportation similar to what we know today and the gap between them and the people’s location will be conveniently filled by self-driving cars. Self-driving cars will be capable of estimating all departure and arrival times, their behavior will be very predictable and so will be the traffic conditions on the roads. Less people behind the wheel means easier to estimate unpredictability on the road. People will prefer calling a car to commute as it will be reaching them instantly at most city and suburban locations. ANWB will provide real-time traffic information directly to the self-driving cars. One car will be communicating with the other (Peer-to-peer) be able to observe, concentrate and share information on where each self-driving vehicle is going in an anonymously.

Future services will be optimized for the fast-paced life in the city. Predictability and trust will be essential for delivering customer value and we can see ANWB playing a crucial role for both citizens and businesses.

Self-driving cars for services

Today the delivery of goods with trucks generates 30% of the traffic volume within cities and causes 80% of the traffic jams during the rush hour(The Problems of Last Mile, 2017). Parking space for delivery vehicles are rare in many cities. As a result, couriers often double-park, causing many traffic jams. Self-driving cars and air-drones will be delivering stuff to our hands wherever we are in the future. Cities will reserve parking spots for delivery vehicles as the demand of ordering goods online will keep on rising significantly. Millennials and Gen Z people as digital natives will demand accuracy, predictability and privacy from the services they use. Any slight delay to the delivery of their products will be a problem and they will be guaranteed instant refund to restore their trust. Future services will be optimized for the fast-paced life in the city. Predictability and trust will be essential for delivering customers value and we can see ANWB playing a crucial role for both citizens and businesses. ANWB will be the central observatory for everyone to check what’s happening on the roads. observing, predicting and reporting

Motorcycles

Motorcycles are always fast and practical to commute in the city but will be dangerous and very unpredictable for the self-driving cars that will be dominating the streets in the future. Riders will mostly use their motorcycles for leisure time. Leasing and moto-sharing services will be very popular from which brands will benefit as they easily advertise their new models and all riders will be able to easily experience by driving. ANWB will provide road assistance to the motorcyclists and will provide ways the

Last mile mobility

Last mile mobility methods, like foldable skateboards, will become more popular and people will be able to have one in their backpacks or instantly grab one like ov-fietsen.

Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

Picture above, As seen on Whim app, Finland.

All the previous sections of future mobility methods mentioned the service opportunity. In the future we can see iterations of today’s most innovative Mobility-as-a-Service systems. Finland is a pioneer in transportation. Recently their Whim app and MaaS Global receive large Red Dot award for their innovation. Whether it’s taxi, public transport, a car service or a bike share, the customers are covered by a pay-as-you-go or monthly plan. In the future, most vehicles out there will be aware of each other around them through some wireless connection. A network of the cars out there will very likely be established. Today it’s known as Peer-to-peer connection . In this manner, drivers will know when it’s the perfect time to hop off and hop on another transportation medium. For example, imagine knowing that there is a brand new, fast, fully charged electric bike close to this station will be cool to use today. What is the estimated time to reach my destination if I choose to hop off the metro and hop on that bike? Keeping flat costs within the service will improve the customer experience (CX) as people will feel more free selecting their vehicle depending on their mood, luck, circumstance. This will also eliminate vehicle thefts as they will be easily tracked and owning them will likely have no benefit. Technologies similar to Blockchain will ensure the ownership history of all vehicles and who joined them making the Peer-to-peer Mobility-as-a-Service transportation system secure, fun, private or collective, a good exploratory experience that will bring high conversion rates in combination with vehicle ownership laws and regulations.

ANWB’s role in MaaS

ANWB will be in the beneficial position to bridge the government, the MaaS services and the commuters. ANWB will advise new MaaS services and platforms on how to convert users, they will sell them subscription plans and will give them access to most Dutch commuters through the ANWB mobile applications. They will be delivering information about where are MaaS vehicles in proximity, schedule and reserve a vehicle to hop on, get benefits if you plan your hop off time ahead. Then ANWB will share back these information with the MaaS services and the partnership will go on. Without ANWB’s contribution, MaaS systems will struggle to begin and will monopolize the commuting scene in the event of big success. For example, if today’s Greenwheels introduce a fleet of all vehicles types (from skateboards to camping vans) and spread them around all public transportation stations in Netherlands, they will start converting customers. Many customers will be hesitant to use their service as they know they will be tracked down on every mile they take. ANWB’s role here is crucial. People trust ANWB, as it was always leading when it comes to transportation in the Netherlands. ANWB will accept MaaS systems, advise, adapt and regulate them to match the Dutch public transport and local laws, and will help them quickly gain trust by the ANWB members. Non-members will also trust more to start using the specific MaaS but they will soon realize they can make the most of their commute if they are ANWB members, where all MaaS services rely on for information, conversion, correspondence and exposure.

Similar to this, only few are actually converted into using the service. Why? Trust, and practicality and because not everyone is doing it. Remember ‘behavior change’ from WWF Foodprint project.

This scenario sounds like ANWB will monopolize and ‘fool’ MaaS customers – but it’s not like that. ANWB will be like a good app that lists all available gas stations in the area with their real-time prices. ANWB does not force MaaS systems cooperate, although both parties, the government and the commuter can enjoy great benefits. ANWB will need the MaaS services to collect their real-time costs (or month plans), their fleet’s location on the map, their vehicles current usage and other vehicle related data. MaaS systems will need ANWB for exposure as explained earlier but in addition they will also use information provided by ANWB to adapt to the competition of other MaaS systems, to approach car owners or place their vehicles strategically to make more money. Commuters need this ANWB service as all Maa-services will be integrated with their daily routines without interruption or extra thought. Government will want to participate in this system as they will adapt their transportation systems, and improve their customer experience with the help of ANWB and new MaaS digital services.

End line

ANWB needs to see the opportunity of real-time information on vehicles available. Because of its long-time trust it will be leading and paving the way to more trusted, private, public services as people have trouble converting into new startups.

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