Why Helsinki is Europe’s smartest city – The Independent

“What would be better than owning a car? If I could go anywhere, anytime on a whim. Finns will do approximately five car trips a year to their summer house; the rest of the time the SUV sits outside the house. When you build one app like this that puts everything together in one place, it makes people want to get rid of their cars. If a pizza comes to you in 15 minutes, why couldn’t a car?”

I’m in a restaurant in Helsinki called Yes Yes Yes, listening to Sampo Hietanen, the CEO and founder of Finnish start-up MaaS Global, who invented the Whim transportation app, one of a new breed of smart apps in the city.

Read the full article in The Independent here.