Autonomous Vehicles

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."

The post AVs Aren’t Solving our Transportation Problems; They’re Automating Them appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

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. 

Plus Streetsblog calls bullsh*t on the "safety" motivation of Cruise and other AV companies

Hundreds of people from the automobile and technology industries are gathering at the Automated Vehicles Symposium in San Francisco this week to exchange notes and speculate about the ways autonomous vehicles might change our lives. If this year’s symposium is like others, few of the attendees will be from city agencies like transportation and planning departments.