ABSTRACT
The discussion in this book so far has mainly been about the intelligence of the car, with some discussion of the benefit of infrastructural intelligence; now we turn our focus to the simultaneous changes the city will be undergoing as a result of digital technology and how that will affect its relationship to the AV. Intelligence as described here is not intelligence in the sense that the car or city are sentient and can make decisions; it is intended to mean that each can make decisions based on inputs from a network and respond to those inputs based on preset programming. That is not to say that cities and cars could not develop sentience-this has been discussed by many others, most notably Antoine Picon in Smart Cities1 and Mark Shepard in Sentient City,2 as well as many in the SENSEable City Lab at MIT. Here, however, we will discuss ideas about how city intelligence could relate to the AV and what benefits or disadvantages this may bring to the citizens of these cities.
