Lukas Neckermann
@neckermann.net
Advisor, Board Member, Author, Speaker | Helping leaders, founders, and investors navigate the #MobilityRevolution since 2013. | Co-Founder #UrbanPlacesLab | 👍 democracy, decency, diversity, facts, and the Oxford comma. | 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺
Language often makes vehicular manslaughter sound innocent.
Most headlines today might say: “Fatal car accident” or “Pedestrian death”.
This one from 1971, about #Detroit: “Where commuters run over black children.”
Harsh? No. Truthful and tragic.
#roadsafety
Most headlines today might say: “Fatal car accident” or “Pedestrian death”.
This one from 1971, about #Detroit: “Where commuters run over black children.”
Harsh? No. Truthful and tragic.
#roadsafety
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Language often makes vehicular manslaughter sound innocent.
Most headlines today might say: “Fatal car accident” or “Pedestrian death”.
This one from 1971, about #Detroit: “Where commuters run over black children.”
Harsh? No. Truthful and tragic.
#roadsafety
Most headlines today might say: “Fatal car accident” or “Pedestrian death”.
This one from 1971, about #Detroit: “Where commuters run over black children.”
Harsh? No. Truthful and tragic.
#roadsafety
Sag mal, CDU… geht’s noch?
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sag mal, CDU… geht’s noch?
Newsflash: in the middle of an almoat unprecedented period of inflation, with enormous uncertainty in the market, buyers aren’t prepared to pay $85,000 for a vehicle.
Great scoop @nytimes.com 🙄
Great scoop @nytimes.com 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Newsflash: in the middle of an almoat unprecedented period of inflation, with enormous uncertainty in the market, buyers aren’t prepared to pay $85,000 for a vehicle.
Great scoop @nytimes.com 🙄
Great scoop @nytimes.com 🙄
File under: “reasons to boycott Meta”.
Source: Reuters
Source: Reuters
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
File under: “reasons to boycott Meta”.
Source: Reuters
Source: Reuters
Tasks that are repetitive, dangerous, or dull are automateable. #AI
“Like performance reviews” 😆
Nikki Greenberg at @smartcityexpo.bsky.social
“Like performance reviews” 😆
Nikki Greenberg at @smartcityexpo.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tasks that are repetitive, dangerous, or dull are automateable. #AI
“Like performance reviews” 😆
Nikki Greenberg at @smartcityexpo.bsky.social
“Like performance reviews” 😆
Nikki Greenberg at @smartcityexpo.bsky.social
Here’s @davidzipper.bsky.social sharing some recommendations on how cities can adapt for #autonomous #mobility
The good news: many of the painful lessons from US rollouts have already been considered in Europe, pre-deployment.
Most importantly: we share our public space and transport already.
The good news: many of the painful lessons from US rollouts have already been considered in Europe, pre-deployment.
Most importantly: we share our public space and transport already.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Here’s @davidzipper.bsky.social sharing some recommendations on how cities can adapt for #autonomous #mobility
The good news: many of the painful lessons from US rollouts have already been considered in Europe, pre-deployment.
Most importantly: we share our public space and transport already.
The good news: many of the painful lessons from US rollouts have already been considered in Europe, pre-deployment.
Most importantly: we share our public space and transport already.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We really mustn’t worry too much about the billions that US colleges and universities “lost” to the current administration. My alma maters have more than made up for it…
Now, if only they would expand access…
Source: Pitchbook.
Now, if only they would expand access…
Source: Pitchbook.
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We really mustn’t worry too much about the billions that US colleges and universities “lost” to the current administration. My alma maters have more than made up for it…
Now, if only they would expand access…
Source: Pitchbook.
Now, if only they would expand access…
Source: Pitchbook.
Quite possibly the worst salesperson ever.
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Quite possibly the worst salesperson ever.
One kill = extra long weekend.
Rather callous - even vile - approach to the value of a human life. But alas… seems par for the course, atm.
Rather callous - even vile - approach to the value of a human life. But alas… seems par for the course, atm.
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
One kill = extra long weekend.
Rather callous - even vile - approach to the value of a human life. But alas… seems par for the course, atm.
Rather callous - even vile - approach to the value of a human life. But alas… seems par for the course, atm.
Translation: Airlines shouldn’t need to pay a penalty to passengers when they cancel flights at will. They should focus on maximising profit for shareholders instead.
This isn’t a question of safety or convenience. It’s just a question of who is more important. 🤷🏻♂️ 🙄
This isn’t a question of safety or convenience. It’s just a question of who is more important. 🤷🏻♂️ 🙄
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Translation: Airlines shouldn’t need to pay a penalty to passengers when they cancel flights at will. They should focus on maximising profit for shareholders instead.
This isn’t a question of safety or convenience. It’s just a question of who is more important. 🤷🏻♂️ 🙄
This isn’t a question of safety or convenience. It’s just a question of who is more important. 🤷🏻♂️ 🙄
Anyone else at the World Congress for self-driving transport? See you here!
September 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Anyone else at the World Congress for self-driving transport? See you here!
The UK’s Fire Brigades Union is not mincing words about an upcoming visit from the US. A presidential visit would “hamper response times and public safety.”
Source: @itvnews.bsky.social
Source: @itvnews.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The UK’s Fire Brigades Union is not mincing words about an upcoming visit from the US. A presidential visit would “hamper response times and public safety.”
Source: @itvnews.bsky.social
Source: @itvnews.bsky.social
Another tragic #roadsafety failure. And another failure by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social to write a headline that says what really happened: A driver killed a young boy using a car.
The car was not acting on its own.
The car was not acting on its own.
August 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Another tragic #roadsafety failure. And another failure by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social to write a headline that says what really happened: A driver killed a young boy using a car.
The car was not acting on its own.
The car was not acting on its own.
Es wird außerdem noch fleissig weitergebaut am „Strategic Cycle Network“ in London.
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Es wird außerdem noch fleissig weitergebaut am „Strategic Cycle Network“ in London.
Dies betrifft NICHT London, sondern nur die „City of London“, ein winzig kleiner Teil unserer Metropole.
Der Modal Split über alle Stadtteile der Stadt liegt für Fahrräder deutlich darunter. Erfreulich dagegen der ÖV Anteil.
Info hier: content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-lo...
Der Modal Split über alle Stadtteile der Stadt liegt für Fahrräder deutlich darunter. Erfreulich dagegen der ÖV Anteil.
Info hier: content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-lo...
August 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Dies betrifft NICHT London, sondern nur die „City of London“, ein winzig kleiner Teil unserer Metropole.
Der Modal Split über alle Stadtteile der Stadt liegt für Fahrräder deutlich darunter. Erfreulich dagegen der ÖV Anteil.
Info hier: content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-lo...
Der Modal Split über alle Stadtteile der Stadt liegt für Fahrräder deutlich darunter. Erfreulich dagegen der ÖV Anteil.
Info hier: content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-lo...
August 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
July 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Readers of the @financialtimes.com asking the tough questions on #robotaxi deployments. And the FT succumbs to printing them.
July 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Readers of the @financialtimes.com asking the tough questions on #robotaxi deployments. And the FT succumbs to printing them.
This is a major step forward for democracy and for the engagement of youth in governance. Bravo!
#democracy #future
#democracy #future
July 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is a major step forward for democracy and for the engagement of youth in governance. Bravo!
#democracy #future
#democracy #future
“Voluntarily entering…”? There must be a better and more direct way to describe what this man, quite tragically, did.
July 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Voluntarily entering…”? There must be a better and more direct way to describe what this man, quite tragically, did.
Reading about a random person eating a burger is not really the incentive to sign up for a “News” service that Apple apparently thinks it is.
I mean, honestly: Did someone get a degree for auch drivel?
I mean, honestly: Did someone get a degree for auch drivel?
July 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reading about a random person eating a burger is not really the incentive to sign up for a “News” service that Apple apparently thinks it is.
I mean, honestly: Did someone get a degree for auch drivel?
I mean, honestly: Did someone get a degree for auch drivel?