{"id":1226,"date":"2015-11-29T01:35:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T01:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2016-01-16T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T17:26:40","slug":"future-of-cities-and-cars-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Future of Cities and Cars 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had thought San Francisco might be the first city with self-driving cars, but it looks like Audi is going to do a test with a small fleet of cars in Summerville, a suburb of Boston in 2018. \u00a0Check out this article in Wired:\u00a0Audi Will Unleash Self-Parking Cars in a Bid to Fix Urban Gridlock<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>They focus on making parking easier for the car owner. \u00a0Go some place, get out of the car while the car finds someplace to park. \u00a0Let your car know when you want to get picked up and it comes to fetch you. \u00a0It does mention sharing the car, so you could make your car work for you while you don’t need it. I had thought that Zip Car or\u00a0Car2Go might just develop a fleet of cars for this service. Why own a car when you can call for one when you need it? \u00a0However, this other delivery system would more like Uber, without the need for drivers. \u00a0This puts the cost of buying a car, insurance, maintenance on the car owner. \u00a0A car owner can get some reimbursement for these costs, plus you have the car to take on trips. \u00a0It will be interesting to see what delivery model works out.<\/p>\n

In any case, the environment is a big winner since the studies show a reduction in carbon emissions. \u00a0The urban landscape is also a big winner as the need for off-street and on-street parking will be reduced. \u00a0My brother, who has driven a taxi for years, has shifted to becoming a bus driver for Muni in San Francisco. \u00a0Whether public transportation is a winner or loser is to be seen. \u00a0Those systems that adapt will continue to be part of the transportation mix, others not so much. The fact that Trimet here in Portland, is going to an app based system for ticketing shows they are aware of the coming technology and\u00a0want to remain a player. \u00a0Muni doesn’t appear to be as nimble, but my brother figures a bus system will last longer than the taxi businesses, which has been resistant to change (despite his efforts).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, architects and urban designers should be looking at what to do with all those parking spaces.<\/p>\n

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I had thought San Francisco might be the first city with self-driving cars, but it looks like Audi is going to do a test with a small fleet of cars in Summerville, a suburb of Boston in 2018. \u00a0Check out this article in Wired:\u00a0Audi Will Unleash Self-Parking Cars in a Bid to Fix Urban Gridlock. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,103],"tags":[106,124,108],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-urban-design","tag-driverless-cars-2","tag-future-of-cities","tag-urban-design-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}