How will self-driving cars affect our cities? Two views
“Phil Levin thinks it will change real estate completely; Christian Wolmar thinks it is ludicrous tech nerd fantasy.
Phil Levin, a “ponderer of the future”, has been pondering self-driving cars, aka autonomous vehicles or AVs. He thinks that they are going to change our cities and turn the real estate industry upside down, making sprawl country much more desirable. He believes that$trillion of real estate is on the move.
Being an alarmed champion of urbanism, I looked for alternative views and discovered Driverless Cars: On a road to nowhere by Christian Wolmar, just released on January 18 by the London Publishing Partnership. Wolmar is a politician, journalist and writer of more than a dozen books about transportation, primarily about rail. He does not believe that driverless cars are going to change the world. He doesn’t even acknowledge their existence…”
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