What will road transport look like in the future? A speculative thread of personal thoughts. Hint: The opposite of this picture.pic.twitter.com/PggWKDrF8m
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What will road transport look like in the future? A speculative thread of personal thoughts. Hint: The opposite of this picture.pic.twitter.com/PggWKDrF8m
12. I fully expect that, to manage demand on strained city streets (that already take up 30% of urban space and ARE NOT expanding), that dynamic pricing will likely make an appearance to help cities manage that space (wouldn't THAT be ironic if Uber gets hit with surge pricing?)
I do agree that the city case is the real litmus test and I have good hopes it will get more efficient there too. If only because a level 5 car will know when traffic lights activate and adjust for it.
4. Cities densify, become more efficient 5. ALL efficiency gains will be utilized to support this: rideshare, bikes & bikeshare, walking and housing near workplaces, transit 6. Whatever cities do this best will have most capacity for more jobs 7. There is no single silver bullet
Agreed there are no silver bullets. I’m excited about an electric bikes/self-driving car future though. Expect it will replace the bus use case and will be competitive with much of tram/metro in most cities.
That’s perhaps the other thing: I suspect only true metropoles probably run out of absolute space downtown, but that’s something I should verify
Also: You should reply to your own tweets, so it becomes an actual thread. Your first 3 points are now lost to the timeline
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