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References & Further Reading
Safe Street Rebel – Not without a fight
https://www.safestreetrebel.com/
Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-driverless-cars-block-ambulance-on-way-to-hospital
Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.
Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.
What is Vision Zero?
https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/
Uber Takes Us for a Ride
https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-for-a-ride
Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us
Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us
Segregation by Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
cars.destroyed.our.cities
https://www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/
Bamberg merchants, city officials say downtown open for business
https://thetandd.com/news/bamberg-merchants-city-officials-say-downtown-open-for-business/article_fec5d451-61bd-5fe2-904c-bdfecdb19392.html
Historical photos of Utrecht
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/
Historical photos of Fake London
https://search.ourontario.ca/
https://images.ourontario.ca/london/search
De Markt in gebruik als parkeerplaats voor auto’s.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.12115/NL-DtAD211303220
The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/selfdrivingcars.txt
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:17 Reasons for optimism & skepticism
2:33 Moving fast and breaking people
8:50 Fatal Uber Crash
10:34 The Real Road Safety Issue
14:27 Promoting car-centric cities
17:03 Cheaper taxis (yay?)
21:07 Traffic congestion will be even worse
25:19 The promised future (past and present)
28:04 How AVs will destroy cities
29:56 Eliminating public transit
32:37 Consuming all streets
34:02 Eliminating pedestrians
36:05 Eliminating speed limits
38:05 Pollution and noise
39:41 Eliminating traffic lights
42:16 Do we actually need AVs?
43:28 Utrecht vs Fake London
48:33 What should we do about it?
51:53 Where to learn more & Nebula
