"A decade from now, the automotive landscape will be dominated by companies that treated 2025's reality check not as a crisis, but as the greatest competitive opportunity they ever witnessed!” - Futurist Jim Carroll

The year 2025 marks a fundamental "Great Recalibration" for the global automotive industry, where the trends related to electrification and autonomy have collided with economic, political, and consumer realities. And perhaps we have not seen an industry - concentrated in Detroit, Stuttgart, and Tokyo - throw away its future in such reckless fashion.

Where are we at this point, and what's the way forward? The once-unquestioned acceleration toward an all-electric, fully autonomous future has been interrupted by significant headwinds, particularly in Western markets.

This has triggered a strategic divergence: legacy automakers seem to be giving up on the trend to once again concentrate on carbon vehicles, squeezing as much as they can out of a dying platform, while new, aggressive Asian automakers take over a future based on EVs.

Blunt, but reality perhaps!

Let's dig in!

The narrative of an imminent, seamless transition to an electric and autonomous future has been decisively fractured in 2025. The year represents a market-wide reckoning, where all of the trends above have met the friction of real-world economics, infrastructure limitations, and political volatility.

Perhaps the biggest issue is how EVs have become a part of the culture wars - suddenly, to cling to one's diesel-belching heavy-duty pickup truck is seen as an oath of allegiance, a pledge to potential greatness, and a testament to ultimate failure.

What happened? Where does it go from here?

----

Futurist Jim Carroll often has his Tesla Model 3 drive him home from the golf course, but still finds it to be a pretty weird experience.

**#Automotive** **#Electric** **#Transformation** **#Competition** **#Strategy** **#Software** **#Mobility** **#Disruption** **#Recalibration** **#Future**
****
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-the-way-forward-9-auto-transportation-a-decade-from-now-the-automotive-landscape-will-be-dominated-by-companies-that-treated-2025s-reality-check-not-as-a-crisis-but-as-t/

Improving brain–machine interfaces with machine learning https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/improving-brain-machine-interfaces-with-machine-learning "Unfortunately, the performance of these microelectrode arrays is not consistent and degrades over time."; #recalibration

#FENet: Enhanced control of a brain–computer interface by tetraplegic participants via neural-network-mediated feature extraction https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-024-01297-1 #BCI #NeuroTech

https://www.chrbutler.com/personal-machines-and-portable-worlds

Interesting meditation on how we can redesign personal devices to balance technology with human needs and dreams.

#personaldevices #imagination #technology #userexperience #design #wonderlust #introspection #humanexperience #digitalworlds #recalibration

Maryum Khan finds that adapting to a rotation when using a tool, recalibrates position estimates of the toolbut not of the hand holding the tool. #recalibration #VR #tool #adaptation

Poster presented at #SCAPPS : https://deniseh.lab.yorku.ca/files/2023/10/Khan-SCAPPS-poster-2023.pdf?x64373

I'm setting timers on my phone apps and getting some things in balance. Truth be told there are some bad app habits that have crept in since 2020 and I'm at my limit.

If you feel this way too I encourage you to do the same.

Stay strong!

#digitalwellbeing #mentalhealth #productivity #recalibration #lifehacks