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Mar. 08, 2018 / Gordon Price

AVs: Heaven or Hell?

Robin Chase of osmosys.org joins the discussion (debate?) on the impacts of AVs – autonomous vehicles.  Her perspective is binary:…
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Mar. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

Friday Funny: Why Motordom Mostly Works

From XKCD:…
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Feb. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

How We Pay For Urban Transportation~ New Westminster's Innovation Thursday

From City Councillor and Urbanist Patrick Johnstone, on the City of New Westminster’s Transportation Forums at Innovation Week: Thursday March…
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Feb. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Legacy of Autonomous Vehicles? Congesting Cities!

Allison Arieff in her New York Times signature style  nails the conversation down on why Autonomous Vehicles can certainly drive themselves,…
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Feb. 27, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Autonomous Shuttle Vehicles First on Public Streets in Britain

What do you do when you are the active transportation manager for one of the largest industrial parks in Great…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Innovation Week with the City of New Westminster!

Innovation Week FEBRUARY 23 – MARCH 3, 2018 Innovation isn’t just about technology, it’s about creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and…
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Feb. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Lecture and Webcast: Disruption All Around – Feb 28

Public Lecture and Webcast ​Disruption All Around! How People, Platforms and Planning are Shaping the New Mobility   Today, more…
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Feb. 09, 2018 / Gordon Price

Observation from Alex: On Automation and Trucking

Alex Botta is one of the reasons why the Comment sections on Price Tags are consistently worth reading: thoughtful, researched…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / Gordon Price

Counterintuition: Automation, cars and jobs

Two items that add nuance to some of the current perceptions about the impact of automation on vehicles, and hence…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

Automated vehicles: The problem with cyclists

From Slate: Autonomous cars have a potentially fatal flaw: They struggle to detect and react to cyclists on the road.…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

The TSP Pledge: Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities

From Curbed: Fifteen leading technology and transportation companies announced the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities, a voluntary set of…
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Jan. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Changes In Motordom's Fundamentals

One reigning paradigm of Motordom is that we all buy a car as soon as we can, and just keep…
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Jan. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Officer, the Autonomous Car Caused the Crash.

It is not a good thing to smash your Tesla into the back of a parked fire truck on San…
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Jan. 18, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

General Motors Cars Go to "Level Four" with No Manual Controls

The NPR.org reports that General Motors  (GM) will be mass-producing a “self-driving car that has no steering wheel, pedals or any other…

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