Driverless cars have two potentially divergent effects on LCF, according to the article linked below, depending on who decides how they will be used. What is your opinion? Do you expect driverless cars to be a continuation of 'car 1.0,' as the article describes the current state of transportation culture that has developed around automobile use? Or do you expect it to usher in 'car 2.0,' where people begin walking and biking more, and using (driverless) cars to get around more sparingly?
Which future will we choose?
The transition to
driverless cars is an opportunity to create more walkable/bikeable/sustainable/liveable cities that provide a multitude of benefits for residents, businesses and governments.
However, we could waste the opportunity so that car 2.0 merely continues the mistakes and negative health and environmental consequences that car 1.0 has been delivering for the past century.
The critical difference lies in who is making the decisions and what the criteria for success are. Public health professionals should be among the decision-makers, because the consequences are too important to leave to engineers and corporate leaders.
Read more at:
https://phys.org/news/2018-01-driver...ealth.html#jCp
Mods: I decided to go ahead and post this in LCF, since it seems of relevance to LCF, but feel free to move it to P&R if the subject matter is too political to maintain peace in this forum.