Transportation

"It’s really important to get this information to consumers before they go to the dealership," said Britta Gross, General Motors director of advanced vehicle commercialization policy. "Nine out of 10 consumers already know which technology they want in their vehicle before they go to the dealership."

If autonomous cars work together, even more space can be saved – though perhaps not surprisingly there’s a trade-off to think about too…

Planners must be realistic. Autonomous vehicles will probably provide smaller net benefits, including safety benefits, than optimists predict.

The Cascadia Rail project would connect Vancouver to Seattle before splitting into branches to Portland and Spokane.

Uber may have intentionally disabled crash avoidance technology that comes equipped in the Volvo.

Instead of blindly welcoming self-driving cars to their streets, city leaders have a chance to prevent tragedies like the Uber fatality from happening again.

The "vigilance decrement" has caused trouble everywhere humans are asked to spend long periods of mostly uneventful time, watching for easy to spot but impossible to predict signals.

How, exactly do we feel about unleashing this tech on public streets, inflicting it on people without their consent or even knowledge?

"It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

More uses and modes than ever are fighting for curb space in growing cities. Here’s an app to make sense of what you can do, and when, along this valued real estate.