https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

 

How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

 

Chapters

 

0:00 Intro

1:17 Reasons for optimism & skepticism

2:33 Moving fast and breaking people

8:50 Fatal Uber Crash

10:34 The Real Road Safety Issue

14:27 Promoting car-centric cities

17:03 Cheaper taxis (yay?)

21:07 Traffic congestion will be even worse

25:19 The promised future (past and present)

28:04 How AVs will destroy cities

29:56 Eliminating public transit

32:37 Consuming all streets

34:02 Eliminating pedestrians

36:05 Eliminating speed limits

38:05 Pollution and noise

39:41 Eliminating traffic lights

42:16 Do we actually need AVs?

43:28 Utrecht vs Fake London

48:33 What should we do about it?

51:53 Where to learn more & Nebula

 

References & Further Reading

 

Safe Street Rebel - Not without a fight

https://www.safestreetrebel.com/

 

Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital

https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-driverless-cars-block-ambulance-on-way-to-hospital

 

Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/

 

What is Vision Zero?

https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/

 

Uber Takes Us for a Ride

https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-for-a-ride

 

Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/robotaxis-wont-get-us-there-so-lets-stop-being-used-to-sell-a-future-that-doesnt-serve-us/

 

Segregation by Design

https://www.segregationbydesign.com/

 

cars.destroyed.our.cities

https://www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/

 

Bamberg merchants, city officials say downtown open for business

https://thetandd.com/news/bamberg-merchants-city-officials-say-downtown-open-for-business/article_fec5d451-61bd-5fe2-904c-bdfecdb19392.html

 

Historical photos of Utrecht

https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/

 

Historical photos of Fake London

https://search.ourontario.ca/

https://images.ourontario.ca/london/search

 

De Markt in gebruik als parkeerplaats voor auto's.

https://zoeken.stadsarchiefdelft.nl/detail.php?id=211303220

 

The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:

https://notjustbikes.com/references/selfdrivingcars.txt