Planes, trains and driverless automobiles

Australia has the second busiest domestic air route in the world. Over 54 thousand flights fly
from Melbourne to Sydney each year, in part because we’re limited to driving or flying. But
what if there was another way to move around the continent.

A competition led by Space X in Los Angeles is challenging University students from around
the globe to build a new type of rail system- a pod that travels in a vacuum at almost the
speed of sound. Melbourne’s Zac McClelland co captained a team that designed a prototype
for the system.

Driverless cars are an inevitable part of our future but with intelligent vehicles we need an
updated transport system. Professor Marjid Sarvi is heading up a project to ensure that our
intersections, pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles will communicate with each other, ensuring
safety and efficiency on our highways and urban centres.

Featured guests:
Zac McClelland, Team Captain, VicHyper
Dr Majid Sarvi, Director of AIMES (https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/industry/transport/aimes)