Autonomous Vehicles
Remember Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman who became the first pedestrian fatality due to an autonomous vehicle when she was hit last March by an Uber with a safety driver in Tempe, Ariz.? Prosecutors found no criminal liability.
The New York Times
A public-private partnership is under consideration in the Florida State Legislature to create a driverless shuttle route in Altamonte Springs.
Orlando Business Journal
The automated decision-making processes of self-driving cars are ill equipped to protect that safety of people of color in public.
Vox
It's not all free flowing commutes and world peace in an autonomous vehicle-filled future.
Futurism
Autonomous vehicles are racking up quite a track record in California—and fewer of the miles driven by autonomous vehicles in 2018 had humans at the wheel than in 2017.
Smart Cities Dive
Take a sneak peak at a potential future.
The Denver Post
Waymo, not General Motors, is brining automobile manufacturing back to Michigan.
Smart Cities Dive
For all the money pouring into autonomous vehicle technology, the public is still relatively unconvinced about the viability of the technology.
Smart Cities Dive
Looking around the globe for lessons in equitable mobility in the new technology-enabled era of transportation.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Is this the future we've been waiting for?
Daily Mail
Blog post
Some thoughts on what we might have learned in 2018 and what it might mean going forward.
The sober view of self-driving cars doesn't allow much optimism.
Jalopnik
For a country that loves cars and driving so much, the eagerness to automate transportation is conspicuous.
Quartz
Michigan State University plans to turn its 5,200-acre campus into a test site for advanced transportation technologies.
Ward's Auto
A paper published in the journal Nature reveals the findings of a survey of 2 million people in 200 countries on the ethics of the "trolley problem" as applied to self-driving cars.
MIT News
The founder of New Urbanism takes his autonomous vehicle skepticism, and ideas for other solutions to congestion, to the pages of the New York Times.
The New York Times
The move comes almost eight months after a self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nico Larco presents a TEDx Talk on the impacts AVs will have on cities, including impacts on land use, land valuation, and the environment. AVs are more than just a transportation issue, and planners need to prepare for the coming changes.
TEDx Talk
For all the concern about the "War on Cars," some car lovers perceive self-driving cars as the real threat to the driving experience and the car culture that comes with it.
The Detroit Free Press
Integrating autonomous vehicles into cities will require effectively managing city streets and suburban sprawl.
Streetsblog USA
