autonomous cars

Artificial intelligence is being installed in ours — but that's not the only place it's showing up. A new report explores what cities need to know about the emerging tech in order to use it well.

Does a world of autonomous cars really have to make our streets less human?

"Right now, AV-makers would have us believe that all of our transportation concerns will go away if we simply replace human drivers with computers. But we know this is not true."

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Let's talk about generative artificial intelligence — and how it may undermine the public comment period in really bad ways.

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Advocates are calling on Congress to be cautious of the promises of the AV revolution — and stop getting distracted from proven solutions like safe road design.

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Replacing human drivers with self-driving taxis might not actually remove many space-wasting parking lots from dense American cities, a new study finds, throwing doubt onto one of the core arguments in favor of the autonomous vehicle revolution. 

Gabe Klein, entrepreneur, writer and former head of transportation for Chicago and Washington DC, spoke yesterday afternoon at the Oakland office of the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) about how technology can be guided to shape the future of our cities.