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| | kylepiira.com
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| | Every time we hear about a tragic car crash, the story is usually framed around individual blame. Someone made a mistake, someone wasn't paying attention, or someone was reckless. But beneath these headlines lies a harder truth. Our urban design itself creates the conditions for these deaths. Poor urban planning is not just an inconvenience...
| | www.governing.com
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| | Experts argue about whether it's mostly poor road design or dangerous drivers. But there's no question that it's gotten a lot riskier to travel on foot.
| | benslivka.com
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| | There were 5.6Mtraffic accidents in the USA in 2013. Self-driving cars from Google and trucks from Freightliner (owned by Mercedes-Benz) have been in the news recently. Self-Driving Vehicles (SDVs) will reduce traffic accidents, transportation costs, transit times, and road congestion. (See Google Self-Driving Car Project.) Uber is valued at $41B today (and rumors of a...
| | www.slashgeek.net
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| I don't think most people appreciate how big of a deal self-driving cars will be when it is commercially available. When I talk about self-driving I mean fully autonomous car without any driver assistance, not driver assists system like "AutoPilot" in Tesla cars or Cruise Automation for GM and many other out there.