How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

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References & Further Reading

Safe Street Rebel - Not without a fight
www.safestreetrebel.com/

Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital
www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-dr…

Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.
missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-v…

What is Vision Zero?
visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/

Uber Takes Us for a Ride
www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-…

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/robotax…

Segregation by Design
www.segregationbydesign.com/

cars.destroyed.our.cities
www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/

Bamberg merchants, city officials say downtown open for business
thetandd.com/news/bamberg-merchants-city-officials…

Historical photos of Utrecht
hetutrechtsarchief.nl/

Historical photos of Fake London
search.ourontario.ca/
images.ourontario.ca/london/search

De Markt in gebruik als parkeerplaats voor auto's.
hdl.handle.net/21.12115/NL-DtAD211303220

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
1:17 Reasons for optimism & skepticism
2:33 Moving fast and breaking people
8:50 Fatal Uber Crash
10:34 The Real Road Safety Issue
14:27 Promoting car-centric cities
17:03 Cheaper taxis (yay?)
21:07 Traffic congestion will be even worse
25:19 The promised future (past and present)
28:04 How AVs will destroy cities
29:56 Eliminating public transit
32:37 Consuming all streets
34:02 Eliminating pedestrians
36:05 Eliminating speed limits
38:05 Pollution and noise
39:41 Eliminating traffic lights
42:16 Do we actually need AVs?
43:28 Utrecht vs Fake London
48:33 What should we do about it?
51:53 Where to learn more & Nebula