Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Driverless Cars

The streets of Lower Manhattan are thick with pedestrians, and cars are a bad fit. Image: Google Maps

GM Should Pay By the Mile to Test Its Robocars in Manhattan

By David Meyer | Oct 18, 2017 | 12 Comments

If Governor Cuomo is going to allow autonomous car prototypes to operate in real city conditions, he needs to insist on a prototype for how these vehicles will pay for access to public streets.

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Miami’s Future Should Be Transit and Walking, But the Mayor’s Focused on Robot Cars

By Stephen Miller | May 26, 2017 | No Comments

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is in charge of executing an ambitious transit expansion plan -- but lately, in a spectacular example of missing the point, he's been talking up autonomous cars as the ultimate transportation solution.

DOT: City Should Have a Voice in New York’s Driverless Vehicle Future

By David Meyer | Oct 31, 2016 | 5 Comments

If you believe the companies developing automated vehicle technology, driverless cars could be on the market as soon as 2021. It will probably take a lot longer than that for real autonomous fleets to operate in cities, but government agencies are already anticipating how to handle the driverless car future. On Friday, the New York City […]

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Choose Your Own Utopia: What Will We Make of Driverless Cars?

By Tony Dutzik | Oct 2, 2015 | No Comments

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. A century ago, a new transportation technology burst onto the scene that threatened to disrupt everything: the car. Thinkers of the day, along with boosters of the new technology, dreamed grand dreams of the utopia it would bring. General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair (shown in the amazing […]