Heya friends, happy Friday!
I’ll share more soon, but the logistics of my life continue to be ~logistic-ing~, so we have yet another week of bullet points. Many of you are very kind and send me words of affirmation like “thanks for all the links” (looking at you, Luke!), but if I’m being honest I can’t wait to have the mental space to opine about transport in a longer form. When I started this newsletter that was the plan I had, now it just feels like a concept of plans (bad weave in, but I had to do it). I expect a few more weeks of the links, so please bear with me.
Next week I will also be in Mexico City for the first time ever, so please send me your favourite walks / bike rides / churros / tacos / book stores / museums / architectural delights! Many advanced thank yous!!
Good news is I also sent a newsletter on Monday, so this one is short n sweet. On y va!
Copenhagen is 75% of the way toward its goal of being carbon-neutral by 2025 (Le Monde)
Japan has plans to test autonomous bullet trains in 2028 (Popular Science)
How China plans to dominate the AV space (WSJ)
Inside Zoox’s design studio (Fortune, or Archive.is if you get hit by the paywall)
All the ways in which AVs still rely on human help (NYTs)
Nuro, a company that started out as a mini-robot delivery service, is expanding their reach into personal automobiles and larger delivery vehicles (The Verge)
How departments of transportation (DOTs) can implement machine learning (National Cooperative Highway Research Program)
Uber drivers say they are doomed in a future with AVs (Futurism)
This article about La Grnade Motte, a modernist housing project in France modeled after the pyramids is … so cool? Not thriving from a mixed land-use perspective but the pictures throughout this article are eye candy galore.
I did not watch the debate live (I genuinely find Trump too jarring to take in live), but loved the discourse over (aka memes), although it is still incredibly disheartening to listen to even short clips of Trump demonizing immigrants, trans people, queer people, women… anybody who isn’t a rich cis-white dude? So let’s remember to vote shall we?
That’s all from me. Have a beautiful weekend friends.
Sarah
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"So let’s remember to vote shall we?" That's description is even more of a reason to vote! He shouldn't even be allowed to run again (should be in jail if you ask me), but we have to make sure he doesn't get in again.
One of my favorite areas of the huge metroplex that is called Mexico City is Coyoacan. From the Frida Kahlo museum, tree lined streets and some nice places to eat it is worth adding to your list. The last time I rode the subway there, I recall that it ran on rubber tires. Was a very different "feel" to the ride. Enjoy Sarah!