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Quote: Taras Grescoe on self-driving cars
The more I read about self-driving cars, the more I realize that nobody knows what they’ll mean for our cities. (a) Self-Driving Cars Will Mean More Traffic (b) Self-Driving Cars Will Crash Less,...
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Automation: “So it goes with autos, so it goes for everything”
So says CGP Grey about the impact of automation on employment in “Humans Need Not Apply – a discussion not of the desirability of automation but its inevitability. . . NPR’s On the Media explores the...
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Ohrn Words: ICBC U and driverless cars
Lee Gomes writes at Slate.com about driverless cars, which are occasionally touted as a panacea for traffic congestion and the appalling death and injury toll on our roads. Not so fast, he says. Expect...
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Another Unexpected Consequence of Driverless Cars
Said Tara Grescoe: “The more I read about self-driving cars, the more I realize that nobody knows what they’ll mean for our cities.” More evidence (something else that never occurred to me) from...
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A Futurist Looks at Where Cars Are Going
From the New York Times: . Eric Larsen heads research in society and technology at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in Sunnyvale, Calif. … The suburbs are still very important. You hear about...
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The Daily Scot: Seniors, Sprawl and Solutions
Scot found this in Vox: Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system totally fails them . Sprawl forces seniors to drive (even when it’s not safe) Anyone who lives long enough will...
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How self-driving cars may move at an intersection
Widely retweeted, but too much fun not to include here: .
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Do Driverless Cars Dream of Electric Bikes?
From the New York Times Magazine: . The cars now being tested by Google, BMW, Ford and others all see by way of a particular kind of scanning system called lidar (a portmanteau of ‘‘light’’ and...
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Automated Vehicles and the Future – 1
This jumped out in a Newsweek article: Uber reports that in some cities, one-third of its trips begin or end at a public-transit station. This stuck me as relevant, having been at a conference where...
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Truck Platooning has arrived
Not quite ready for prime time – but already on the roads. From The Guardian: “Truck platooning” involves two or three trucks that autonomously drive in convoy and are connected via wireless, with...
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