In the aftermath of COVID 19, people would likely to be a bit reluctant to use shared mobility, when meeting with other people in a restricted car body volume.
The same problem exists for any public transport system. For air travel, a Seattle-based design company called Teague has proposed a solution based on new kinds of ventilation.
Teague’s concept is called AirShield, meant to keep coughs and sneezes confined to just one passenger seat: the one in which the person who coughed and sneezed is sitting. Then, the air is directly picked up and immediately re-directed downwards and out of the cabin to the HEPA filtration units, before even entering the personal space of a neighboring passenger.
As designed to improve existing aircrafts, AirShield can be 3D-printed, and easily clips onto the airplane’s already-existing air conditioning unit.
All those characteristics fit perfectly with what would be needed into a shared mobility vehicle. What might it cost to put into a car…? Perhaps time will tell.
