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- Zipcar "Zipcard" Key Card, 2010 - In the 2000s, a growing understanding of the inconveniences and hardships of owning a car--cost, parking, environmental effects and effects on city design--made car rejection popular. These attitudes, combined with new technologies, made new industries like carshares viable. This card, when waved over a windshield-mounted radio transceiver, unlocks cars in the popular Zipcar carsharing program.
- 2010
- Collections - Artifact
Zipcar "Zipcard" Key Card, 2010
In the 2000s, a growing understanding of the inconveniences and hardships of owning a car--cost, parking, environmental effects and effects on city design--made car rejection popular. These attitudes, combined with new technologies, made new industries like carshares viable. This card, when waved over a windshield-mounted radio transceiver, unlocks cars in the popular Zipcar carsharing program.
- "Mobility: "There's a Different Way of Doing This"," Clip for Interview with Jessica Robinson, August 28, 2020 - Jessica Robinson, co-founder of Detroit Mobility Lab, Michigan Mobility Institute, and Assembly Ventures, was the Spring 2020 Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Henry Ford, funded by the William Davidson Foundation Initiative for Entrepreneurship. During her interview, Robinson describes how her organizations -- and her residency projects -- encourage technological education in the midst of dramatic new transportation technologies.
- August 28, 2020
- Collections - Artifact
"Mobility: "There's a Different Way of Doing This"," Clip for Interview with Jessica Robinson, August 28, 2020
Jessica Robinson, co-founder of Detroit Mobility Lab, Michigan Mobility Institute, and Assembly Ventures, was the Spring 2020 Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Henry Ford, funded by the William Davidson Foundation Initiative for Entrepreneurship. During her interview, Robinson describes how her organizations -- and her residency projects -- encourage technological education in the midst of dramatic new transportation technologies.