I know a transportation professional who has a passionate belief that autonomous vehicles will be running all over the place by 2019. If you suggest otherwise to this person, you’re a technology hating luddite.

It’s good to see a reality check article like this. The discussion about autonomous vehicles has mostly been a combine of hype and technophilia. In any scenario, I don’t see autonomous vehicles replacing transit. In any place where there is a dense concentration of people—jobs and/ or residents—there is simply not…

This is an interesting thread. It’s interesting that several of you think that autonomous vehicles will rescue transit, when a lot of people think they will damage it. If the technology really develops, it will be possible to run driverless buses—although fares will have to be collected and somebody will have to keep…

The real errors in Silicon Valley were locational. All of the computer companies flocked to peripheral locations in industrial areas, so they could have “campuses.” The cities in the area—Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo—also weren’t very enthusiastic abo

I know this isn't true of you, Alissa, but I think there are a lot of people jumping on the autonomous vehicles bandwagon for lousy reasons. Among the reality-based, there's a widespread understanding that we have to do things differently because of climate change. But many people don't want to give up the suburban…

Uh, I don't wholly agree with Alissa on this article, but she actually lives in Los Angeles, not New York