What Jarrett Walker thinks about self-driving cars
Public transit planning consultant and author of Human Transit, who has redesigned bus networks in cities across North America, Australia and New Zealand. Writes at humantransit.org about frequency, the ridership-versus-coverage trade-off, and the geometry of moving people through cities.
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2 dated positions, 2010 to 2014, in their own words. Our reading of what Jarrett Walker has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsHowever successful driverless cars become, transit will remain crucial for dense cities because cities are defined by a shortage of space per person.
↗no, autonomous cars will not "abolish transit" in dense citieshumantransit.org 1st of 3 in this piece
- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsRich people may have self-driving cars, but they won’t be the basis of the city.
↗Technology vs Geometry at the Venice Biennalehumantransit.org 2nd of 2 in this piece