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Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

Mobility Tech

Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, by Alex Davies

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alex davies, anthony levandowski, argo, argo AI, auto industry, automotive industry, automotive sector, autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, AV's, AVs, big tech, connected vehicles, Cruise, cruise automation, DARPA, driven, driven the race to create an autonomous car, driven the race to create an autonomous car alex davies, Ford, Ford Corktown, ford motor company, general motors, GM, infrastructure, mobility, mountain view, nevada, new mobility, palo alto, tech, tech bros, the race to create an autonomous car, transportation, william mitchell

Weekend Read. This book, Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, is worth reading for anyone who is interested

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, AVs, Cruise, cruise automation, dedicated short range communications, DSCR, Ford, general motors, intelligent transportation systems, mobility, public transit, sustainable mobility, Tesla, transit, transportation, urban mobility, Waymo

No, it’s not a Potemkin Village in which erstwhile Governor Rick Snyder staged his great Austerity March for propaganda films.

Urban Planning Finance Public transit

Bad Ideas And Bad Companies Do Not Need Your Defense

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments aaata, aecom, auto bailout, auto industry, autonomous vehicles, AVs, big three, chrysler, corporate debt, cruise automation, electric vehicles, electrification, finance, Ford, general motors, hntb, infrastructure, lyft, pedestrian safety, stock market, Tesla, trucks

I was out for happy hour the other night with a transportation group. In spite of its legendarily bad public