Along for the Ride #210

A very speedy edition

Heya friends, happy Friday!

I am writing an abbreviated edition from Row 83 on my flight to London; my first time on a plane with two stories! Being a mobility nerd is fun because sometimes it means instead of moaning about being in the very last row, I instead get to be like … engineering can be cool??

Anyways…! Before we dive into a short and sweet edition of the news, Ali Griswold from Oversharing and I have finalized the details of our mobility happy hour next week! Come find us at the Earl of Essex at 6pm on Thursday, Nov. 23rd. Fill in this form if you’d like to join us, and feel free to bring a +1. Not to pitch it too hard… but this is potentially a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to also meet my mom (an icon! you can ask her about her biking adventures!).

As I bop around London, I’ll be taking next week off writing. OK, time for ze (bullet-pointed) news:

• How will Texas approach AV regulation? As the wild wild west or a regulatory haven? (TechCrunch)

• WeRide launches AVs in Inner Mongolia (ChinaDaily)

• Milton Keynes plans to test AV buses (BBC)

• Here’s a series of emails between San Francisco’s police department and Cruise (Bloomberg)

  • Good ol’ sunshine laws bringing the tea

• Car makers could face prison time for misleading adverts in the UK (NewScientist)

• Cruise is suspending employee equity payments in Q4 (Reuters)

  • Seems like a good way to punish lower level employees for what I’m going to call leadership failures

• How London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are decreasing motor traffic (Journal, Case Studies on Transport Policy)

  • Shout out to Maca for this recommendation!

  • Substantial falls in motor traffic within LTN schemes, especially in Inner London (yay!)

  • By contrast, little average change in motor traffic on LTN boundary roads (also yay!)

• Why narrower roads are safer, and save lives (NPR)

  • Shout out to AFTR reader Richard for this share!

• The case against AVs (Politico)

• Can AVs help cities with their sustainability efforts (The Verge)

• AVs are slowly moving forward (The Economist)

• How do we navigate public transit’s fiscal cliff? (Governing)

a sunset walk with Matt and Pax, 12 hours with Coco, and a note from my favourite barista who's moving to Hawaii

• Collaborative Mobility UK is hosting their annual conference on Dec. 5th, and you should attend! It’s online and you can register here.

• I am currently reading my first Murakami (Dance, Dance, Dance) and I have thoughts, especially in how Murakami writes women… maybe I started wrong but also maybe he just thinks women are meek lil beings who need saving from mediocre men?? If you’ve read Murakami, please help me understand if I’m really far off or right on target.

That’s all from me. Have a beautiful weekend friends!

Sarah