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Three Policies for Making Driverless Cars Work for Cities

November 6, 2018 By Emily Hamilton

Some urbanists have become skeptical about the future of autonomous vehicles even as unstaffed, autonomous taxis are now serving customers in Phoenix and Japan. Others worry that AVs, if they are ever deployed widely, will make cities worse. Angie Schmitt posits that allowing AVs in cities without … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, parking, Policy, Transportation Tagged With: autonomous vehicles, Donald Shoup, driverless cars, parking

Why Autonomous Vehicles != Endless Sprawl

July 18, 2018 By Jeff Fong

There’s been an ongoing debate in urbanist circles about whether autonomous vehicles (AVs) will damn us to perpetual sprawl and super commuting. I don’t believe that they will. In the first place, the business conditions under which AVs could conceivably induce more sprawl are unlikely. And in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Logistics & Transportation, planning, sprawl, Transportation Tagged With: autonomous vehicles, self driving cars, sprawl

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