Along for the Ride: Weekly Newsletter on AVs and Urbanism - Issue #14
Along for the Ride: Weekly Newsletter on AVs and Urbanism - Issue #14
Esteemed subscribers, welcome to another week of self-driving cars and urbanization.
Without further delay, here’s the round up:
Meme of the Week
Courtesy of Janette Sadik-Khan's (former NYCDOT Commissioner) twitter.
Government and Policy
NHSTA Rewrites Rules: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is rewriting rules to progress AV R&D. (USDOT).
Pricing Pavement: Jakarta is the latest city to welcome road pricing, expected in 2019. (Straits Times).
Street Design First: Renowned urban planner Jeff Speck reminds cities that adding more space for self-driving cars won’t solve congestion problems. (Streetsblog LA).
Curbed: How NYC’s small infrastructure change of embedding rubber curbs into intersections is saving pedestrian’s lives. (Qz).
AVs and Access: How can we design equitable and accessible self-driving vehicles for people with impairments? (The News Wheel).
Sunbelt Shuttles: Phoenix and Sacramento welcome new Local Motors shuttle. (Smart Cities Dive).
Industry
Honda & GM: Honda will begin heavily investing in GM’s self-driving unit, Cruise. (USA Today).
MONET: Softbank and Toyota partner in Japan to bring the world a new (Mo)bility (Net)work - MONET. (TechCrunch).
Communication is Everything: Ford considers how AVs can best communicate with the public and other vehicles. (Forbes).
Ford’s Sky Gaze: Auto OEM partners with NASA to develop better self-driving tech. (Inverse).
Maps: Mapper.ai is building a map base for self-driving cars that continuously updates. (MIT Tech Review).
Asleep at the Wheel: A collision by a Waymo vehicle last year is reported to have occurred after the safety driver feel asleep at the wheel and accidentally hit the accelerator. (The Information).
Pizza Please: User video of a self-driving car delivering Dominos. (YouTube).
Making Moves: May Mobility brings its self-driving shuttle to third US city this year. (TechCrunch).
Lyft Ditch: The company is expanding their project which pays people to give up their personal vehicle. (Wired).
Guinea Pigs: Tesla enlists own employees as self-driving car beta testers. (Bloomberg).
Taiwan: Acer and Yulon Group design Taiwan’s first self-driving car. (Taiwan News).
Bad Apples: Ex-apple engineers unveil new LiDAR technology. (The Verge).
Research and Academia
Home Sweet Home: AVs have the potential to free up enough land in London for 180,000 new homes. (PlanTech).
More Miles: Research from the University of Colorado Denver finds ride-hailing does increase vehicle miles travelled. (Springer).
Opinion
An Ode to Detroit: How the city built self-driving gurus, not Silicon Valley. (Detroit News).
Shuttling Through Canada: Blog on the experience of using a self-driving shuttle in Edmonton, Alberta. (David Silver).
The Disruption Hoax: Urban planner and transport engineer discusses why AVs aren’t as disruptive as everybody thinks. (Justin VannPashak).
Blocking Benefits: How AVs could interfere with the design of walkable, liveable communities. (The Conversation).
Have a beautiful weekend friends.
Sarah
By Sarah Barnes
This weekly newsletter on cities, transportation and technology is curated weekly by Sarah Barnes, a transport nerd based in San Francisco, CA.
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