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Oct. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Designing Cities for Automation

It’s the hot topic at the National Association of City Transportation Officials conference in Chicago at the moment, which has…
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Oct. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Jeff Specks "Ten rules for automated vehicles"

Excerpts from CNU Public Square Ten rules for cities about automated vehicles The adoption of AVs should not be allowed…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

The real revolution in new vehicle technology

From Car and Driver: If the driverless economy is imminent, and the endgame is fleets of fully utilized robot vehicles…
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Oct. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Quote: Redesigning Cities for Automated Vehicles

From the Washington Post: “Where you have cars driving with no steering wheel, no pedals, I think first what you’re…
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Apr. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Were the Luddites right? – Automation and its Consequences

Had a discussion with an economist the other day, who held to the conventional wisdom, justified by history, that the…
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Mar. 10, 2017 / Gordon Price

Congestion and Automated Vehicles

From the New York Times: … there is one problem autonomous driving is unlikely to solve: the columns of rush-hour…
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Mar. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Future Thinking: Vancouver and the Automated Vehicle

Picked up from Modacity: Vancouver Prepares For a Driverless Future That Includes Extra Space for Walking, Cycling, and Transit Taking…
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Feb. 02, 2017 / Gordon Price

Identity Crisis: The Self-Driving Car and the Bicycle

From IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): “Bicycles are probably the most difficult detection problem that autonomous vehicles face…
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Dec. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

Kickstart: Will AVs be failsafe – and affordable?

By Gord Price The Sun has been running a series on the state of Motordom.  Today: driverless cars, or AVs…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

'Anxious and Powerless' – Driverless Cars in BC

From Business in Vancouver: A survey of more than 1,000 Insurance Corporation of BC (ICBC) customers found that half of…

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