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Rich people will have self-driving cars and the city will not be built around them.

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  1. Jarrett Walker

    Public transit planning consultant and author of Human Transit

    Rich people may have self-driving cars, but they won’t be the basis of the city.

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    ↗Technology vs Geometry at the Venice Biennalehumantransit.org

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