Driverless Urban Futures

<p>Since the industrial revolution innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today autonomous vehicles (AVs also referred to as self-driving cars) represent the next disruptive innovation in mobility with particularly profound impacts for cities. At a moment of the fast-paced development of AVs by auto-making companies around the world policymakers planners and designers need to anticipate and address the many questions concerning the impacts of this new technology on urbanism and society at large.</p><p>Conceived as a speculative atlas –a roadmap to unknown territories– this book presents a series of drawings and text that unpack the potential impacts of AVs on scales ranging from the metropolis to the street. The work is both grounded in a study of the history of urban transportation and current trajectories of technological innovation and informed by an open-ended attitude of future envisioning and design. Through the drawings and essays <i>Driverless Urban Futures </i>invites readers into a debate of how our future infrastructure could benefit all members of the public and levels of society.</p>