Travis Kalanick: Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars
Travis Kalanick: Il progetto di Uber di mettere più persone in meno auto
As Uber's co-founder and former CEO, Travis Kalanick is disrupting an entrenched industry and reinventing urban transportation. Full bio
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well, this morning --
of human-driven transportation;
pollution and parking
l'inquinamento e i parcheggi
with the technology that's in our pockets.
tecnologia che sta nelle nostre tasche.
to go back over 100 years.
tornare indietro di oltre 100 anni.
there was an Uber way before Uber.
esisteva molto prima di Uber.
would probably already be here.
probabilmente già qui.
by a guy named LP Draper.
da un tizio di nome LP Draper.
and he had an idea.
di Los Angeles, che ebbe un'idea:
downtown Los Angeles,
di Los Angeles,
to get to where they wanted to go.
che cercavano di andare dove volevano.
I just put a sign on my car
un cartello sulla mia macchina
they want to go for a jitney --
ovunque vogliano per un jitney?"
but across the country.
ma in tutto il paese.
rides per day in Seattle,
50.000 passaggi al giorno,
a Los Angeles.
monopoly at the time.
dei trasporti al tempo.
about the jitney juggernaut.
della rivoluzione del jitney.
to slow down the growth of the jitney.
la crescita dei jitney.
often they were pricey.
in the jitney for 16 hours a day.
per 16 ore al giorno.
drivers for one jitney.
interesting regulation
put a backseat light --
nell'abitacolo posteriore,
which they called spooning.
che chiamarono "effusioni".
this thing had taken off.
questa cosa era decollata.
completely out of existence.
a norma di legge entro il 1919.
then you have to own one.
un auto, devi possederla.
balzò alle stelle
woman and child in the United States.
donna e bambino in America.
happening in China than in the US.
che in America.
of course had a public cost.
naturalmente, ha avuto un costo pubblico.
7 billion hours a year,
7 miliardi di ore all'anno,
in perdita della produttività,
of our carbon footprint
nostra impronta ecologica
by those cars that we're sitting in.
of our problem though.
your car is sitting idle.
del tempo la tua auto è ferma.
of our land and our space
e del nostro spazio, quindi,
questi grossi pezzi d'acciaio.
dei grattacieli per automobili.
with this problem for decades.
con questo problema da decenni.
populated in the world
popolate al mondo,
mass transit systems in the world,
più sofisticati al mondo,
that go over those bridges every day.
che attraversano quei ponti ogni giorno.
hasn't yet figured out
non ha ancora capito
where I live,
of Uber in 2010 was --
to push a button and get a ride.
e avere un passaggio.
to push a button and get a ride,
un tasto e avere un passaggio,
was a lot of duplicate rides.
molti percorsi si ripetevano.
nello stesso momento
nello stesso posto.
and turn them into one.
in uno solo?"
that ride would be a lot cheaper --
il passaggio sarebbe più economico,
and a lot fewer cars.
passaggi più economici,
would be willing to share it?
vogliano condividerli?
is a resounding yes.
è un clamoroso sì.
wherever the heck they wanted.
dove cavolo volevano.
is where we have the most cars.
dove ci sono più auto.
as many bright colors.
tanti colori accesi.
the city in fewer cars,
7.9 million miles off the roads
di miglia dalla strada
metric tons of CO2 out of the air.
going, "How do we fix this?" --
e pensando: "Come lo risolvo?" -
is that eight months later,
otto mesi più tardi,
that are carpooling every week.
che condividono l'auto ogni settimana.
uberPOOL trips per month,
di passaggi uberPOOL al mese,
that exponential growth happen.
una crescita esponenziale.
we don't talk about,
non diciamo:
carpooling every week and we're done."
siamo a posto."
that could be several million.
solution for urban carpooling.
per le corse collettive urbane.
where I grew up in Los Angeles,
called Northridge, California,
in California,
si estendono per chilometri.
they kind of just go on forever.
con un solo passeggero,
they go to their place of work.
tens of millions of them --
commuter cars into shared cars?
recently launched called uberCOMMUTE.
lanciato un prodotto chiamato uberCOMMUTE.
get ready for work, get your coffee,
prendi il tuo caffè,
with one of your neighbors
of owning a car is per mile.
per la proprietà di un'auto.
in the United States
negli Stati Uniti
at a moment's notice,
you're a criminal.
sei un criminale.
carpooling in Los Angeles?
a mezzo milione di persone a Los Angeles?
carpooling in the United States?
a 50 milioni di persone in America?
to the lesson of the jitney.
the regulations that happened,
in the place of parking lots?
another opportunity.
about self-driving cars
delle macchine automatiche,
five, 10 or even 20 years
5, 10 o anche 20 anni
città una realtà?
in tasca oggi
in un'auto condivisa,
starting today.
nostre città immediatamente.
you've built is absolutely astounding.
è davvero strabiliante.
about a small part of it here --
into public transport like that,
in un mezzo pubblico
out there on people's minds.
and tried to book an Uber
a prenotare un Uber
very bold, brave redesign.
di ridisegnarla completamente."
not finding the app that day?
non trovavano l'app?
for this redesign?
probably just say,
a little bit about our history,
la nostra storia
alle auto nere.
and get an S-Class.
un tasto e ti arrivava una classe S.
an immature version of a luxury brand
in erba di un brand di lusso
su un'auto di lusso.
to auto rickshaws in India,
ai risciò in India,
that was important for us
with the patterns and colors.
anything in Sanskrit,
in Sanscrito
a little bit what it was about.
roll out something like that,
una cosa simile
we saw a lot more people opening the app
che aprivano l'app
what they would find when they opened it.
cosa avrebbero trovato.
from what we expected.
più alti di quello che ci aspettavamo."
are something of an enigma, I would say.
who have been with you the whole way,
che sono stati con te dal primo momento,
the powerful, entrenched interests
a fierce, relentless competitor,
e inarrestabile
taken that culture too far,
abbia quasi superato il limite,
like a year or two ago
where a lot of women got upset.
che coinvolgeva molte donne.
inside the company during that period?
in quel periodo?
since I've been in high school
andavo al liceo
an entrepreneur will see hard times
affrontare momenti difficili
good people doing good work,
che facevano un buon lavoro,
two and a half years ago,
your cultural values
are constantly checking
si analizzino sempre
doing good work?"
un buon lavoro?"
is making sure you're telling your story.
we came out stronger.
who occasionally give you a hard time.
che ti creano difficoltà.
in New York and elsewhere
e altrove
because you changed the fees
delle tariffe
barely afford the deal anymore.
ad andare avanti.
that you started this originally --
and summoning a ride.
e avere un passaggio.
economy, basically, at this point.
l'economia mondiale.
whether you want it or not,
volente o nolente,
who's changing the world.
che sta cambiando il mondo.
and be what that takes?
packed in that question, so --
than our black car product.
del nostro prodotto di lusso.
a metà del costo di un taxi.
than they would as taxi drivers.
a ora, più dei tassisti.
than they otherwise would have,
di quanto farebbero altrimenti,
in places they wouldn't have before.
non l'avrebbero usato prima.
is wherever he or she drops somebody off,
un autista lasci una persona
to get a pickup and get back in.
che questa lo riprenda.
is more trips per hour,
where they're productive
literally five or six price cuts
i prezzi cinque o sei volte
go up over time.
crescere nel tempo.
we call "4 Septembers" --
chiamata "I 4 settembre"...
you can't go down forever.
non possiamo andare al ribasso per sempre.
where we bring the price down
about solving hard problems.
problemi difficili.
is it's kind of like a math professor.
un professore di matematica.
doesn't have hard problems to solve,
problemi difficili da risolvere,
about those and solving them.
that we can possibly find,
che possiamo trovare,
self-driving cars,
auto senza autista,
than you currently pay for an Uber ride.
a quello attuale per un passaggio Uber.
of a million drivers plus at that time?
al tuo esercito di autisti?"
at which time?
self-driving cars are coming --
le auto senza autista..."
Sorry, I missed that.
the first part is it's going to take --
la prima parte avverrà...
or media might expect.
in certain places and not in others.
solo in certi posti.
challenge, right?
in this since 2007,
Apple's going to be doing it,
are going to be doing it.
and for good reason.
e lo è per una buona ragione.
in incidenti d'auto.
or even trillions of hours worldwide
di ore in tutto il mondo
driving frustrated, anxious.
a guidare frustrate e ansiose.
of life that improves
riapproprieranno del proprio tempo
is that it's a challenge,
or the trolley industry --
o della funicolare,
or be a part of the future.
o essere parte del futuro.
lead through it?
a essere ottimisti?
vocational training, etc.,
di formazione, o quant'altro,
than I think we all expect,
is absolutely incredible
è davvero incredibile
for coming to TED and sharing so openly.
apertamente sul palco di TED.
TK: Thank you very much.
TK: "Grazie mille a te."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Travis Kalanick - EntrepreneurAs Uber's co-founder and former CEO, Travis Kalanick is disrupting an entrenched industry and reinventing urban transportation.
Why you should listen
In 2010, entrepreneur and angel investor Travis Kalanick, with his co-founder Garrett Camp, took a niche product -- Uber -- and turned it into a global platform that has transformed the way we move around the world.
In 68 countries and 360 cities, riders can push a button and get a ride, and drivers have a flexible, independent way to make money. With big investments in China, India, carpooling, self-driving cars and logistics, Uber's future promises to be as headline-grabbing as its past, continuing to reinvent urban transportation as we know it.
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