Car companies have been talking about making cars a third place for years, and the concept has been engrained in North American culture for even longer. But can cars actually function as a third place? More importantly, should they?
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For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted tests on 14 widely available versions of self-driving technology. Here’s what they found.
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Autonomous vehicle companies have expanded operations throughout San Francisco. What are the results so far? Multiple crashes, first responders blocked on their way to emergencies, and a whole host of other incidences.
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For the past half year, San Franciscans have seen first-hand evidence of how autonomous vehicles disobey traffic laws and compromise safety on city streets. Here’s how residents are making their grievances known.
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Engineers would have us believe that we’re just one shiny new technology away from making streets safer for people walking.
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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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Innovations promising safety and certainty often make us more fragile and vulnerable instead.
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In most of North America, we’ve created a world where the poor and rich alike have to pay a very expensive ante—owning a car—just to participate in society. Will autonomous vehicles bring about a fairer world, or exacerbate these inequalities?
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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Why stake our hopes on a technology that’s still far from ready for mass adoption? Building walkable cities, where jobs, goods and services are closer together, is a much surer, cheaper, less resource-intensive path to sustainability.
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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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