Technology historian Peter Norton talks about why we need to be more skeptical toward the utopian promises of self-driving cars.
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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Are automated vehicles a solution looking for a problem—or perhaps the wrong solution for problems (traffic deaths, traffic congestion, etc.) that could be solved in better, easier ways?
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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As technology becomes cheaper and more commonplace, it’s not driving us away from cities. Rather, it’s making the other attributes of place—especially human capital, social interaction and quality of life—more valuable.
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How will autonomous vehicles impact our cities and the way we get around?
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Automated vehicles are coming whether we like it or not. In the realm of public transit, they could save us money and offer greater service options.
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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Traditional urbanism evolved over millennia to meet human needs. The adoption of AVs should not be allowed to replace time-tested places with something that would probably make our lives worse.
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What stories do we tell ourselves about the kind of world we want to live in?
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What does ride-sharing mean for the future of our cities and car ownership?
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation system, not just through their safety and convenience, but also because of their lower cost.
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Those contemplating the widespread availability of self-driving cars are predicting everything from a new urban nirvana to a hellish exurban dystopia. But all of these projections hinge on a single fact about autonomous vehicles that we don’t yet know: how much they will cost to operate.
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How does a city balance the expectations of drivers with the needs of productive places and the people who use them, when fast-paced technological change may soon upend the basic realities on which such assessments are built?
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Dense cities that want to live in the real world of space and time, and that do not want to become dystopias that are functional only for the rich, need to use urban space efficiently. That includes public transit.
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Public transit is environmentally-friendly, affordable and helpful for economic development. But there's a fourth virtue of public transit: it saves space.
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For those of you who expect to be sitting in your own personal car being whisked around in effortless comfort and privacy as you commute to distant suburban locations… Not quite.
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Is there a disruption on the horizon that could potentially put us out of business?
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to change the way we develop our cities in very positive ways. They could, in fact, be one more chink in the armor of the existing 'build it and they will come' model of auto-oriented suburbia with its wide roads and vast acres of parking.
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Author, civil engineer and University of Minnesota professor David Levinson (Twitter) joins the podcast to talk about his new book, The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport, which he co-authored with Kevin Krizek.
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