{"id":24287,"date":"2014-05-28T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=24287"},"modified":"2014-07-10T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:39:50","slug":"will-self-driving-cars-make-cities-better-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/will-self-driving-cars-make-cities-better-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Self-Driving Cars Make Our Cities Better Or Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"gv-placement-sap\" id=\"gv_target_2796473914024832061558221\"><\/div>\n<p><script>!function(a,b,c){var d=a.getElementsByTagName(b)[0];a.getElementById(c)||(a=a.createElement(b),a.id=c,a.src=(\"https:\"==document.location.protocol?\"http:\/\/player-services.goviral-content.com\".replace(\/^http\\:\/,\"https:\"):\"http:\/\/player-services.goviral-content.com\")+\"\/embed-code\/index\/find?placementVersionId=2796473914024832061558221\",d.parentNode.insertBefore(a,d))}(document,\"script\",\"gv_script_2796473914024832061558221\");<\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>When you talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ds.com\/industries\/transportation-mobility\/if-we\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the future of transportation<\/a>*, some of us think about more bicyclists and bicycling, and a more bicycle-friendly world. However, for the average Joe, I think the main thing that comes to mind these days is self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>Self-driving cars are actually getting much closer to commercial reality than many of us have thought. Rather than something 10 years out, this may be something that is just around the corner. <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.ca\/2014\/05\/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google just announced<\/a> that it is building 100 prototype self-driving cars from the ground up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/will-self-driving-cars-make-cities-better-worse\/google-self-driving-car-prototype\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24289\" src=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png\" alt=\"google self driving car prototype\" width=\"872\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png 872w, https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype-800x531.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/will-self-driving-cars-make-cities-better-worse\/first-google-self-driving-car\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24288\" src=\"http:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/first-google-self-driving-car.png\" alt=\"first google self driving car\" width=\"874\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/first-google-self-driving-car.png 874w, https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/first-google-self-driving-car-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/first-google-self-driving-car-800x529.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re now exploring what fully self-driving vehicles would look like by building some prototypes; they\u2019ll be designed to operate safely and autonomously without requiring human intervention. They won\u2019t have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal\u2026 because they don\u2019t need them. Our software and sensors do all the work. The vehicles will be very basic\u2014we want to learn from them and adapt them as quickly as possible\u2014but they will take you where you want to go at the push of a button. And that&#8217;s an important step toward improving road safety and transforming mobility for millions of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Safety is certainly a plus, but more cars on the road\u00a0and\u00a0more driving isn&#8217;t. That means more congestion, more pollution, and more places built for cars rather than people (or, as some might put it, for people in metal and plastic bubbles).<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, self-driving cars could be a blessing or a menace. Self-driving cars could be used to enable more people to drive around in congested cities. They could make\u00a0traffic jams less painful for people in them since the &#8220;drivers&#8221; no longer have to pay attention and can do other things, which would\u00a0likely lead to longer traffic jams&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, self-driving cars could also speed up growth in carsharing, which could cut down on automobile ownership and driving in general. And small self-driving cars could also\u00a0make our transportation systems much more efficient and genuinely safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. We&#8217;ll have to see, but as <em>TreeHugger<\/em>&#8216;s Lloyd Alter aptly notes, we\u00a0better get thinking about and planning for this now!\u00a0If we want more livable cities, we have to create them.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/origin.www.treehugger.com\/urban-design\/google-unveils-its-designs-self-driving-car-built-ground.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lloyd writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">The autonomous car will likely be shared, smaller, lighter, slower, and there will likely be about a tenth as many of them. Urban planners and theorists have to start thinking about this or we will screw it up again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>*Disclosure: This articles was supported by\u00a0Dassault Systemes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you talk about the future of transportation*, some of us think about more bicyclists and bicycling, and a more bicycle-friendly world. However, for the average Joe, I think the main thing that comes to mind these days is self-driving cars. Self-driving cars are actually getting much closer to commercial reality than many of us &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/will-self-driving-cars-make-cities-better-worse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Self-Driving Cars Make Our Cities Better Or Worse?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,5],"tags":[560,1497],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png",872,579,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype-300x199.png",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png",768,510,false],"large":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype-800x531.png",800,531,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png",872,579,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bikocity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/google-self-driving-car-prototype.png",872,579,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zach","author_link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/author\/zshahan\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When you talk about the future of transportation*, some of us think about more bicyclists and bicycling, and a more bicycle-friendly world. 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