ABSTRACT
A transportation revolution is imminent. By the time this book is published, there are likely to be self-driving cars operating taxi services. By the time you are reading this book, perhaps they are ubiquitous. It is the nature of research into this subject that by the time it is completed, technological advancement has outpaced the research. And while there is much talk about the impact of the autonomous vehicle (AV), there is very little true understanding of the revolution that this technology will bring-within society, on the design of the street, and on the urban realm. This book theorizes that in order to understand the impact of the technology, it is necessary to visualize the future with the technology well enough to understand it and, further, visualize it demonstrating multiple outcomes so that we can imagine the impacts of different decisions on the outcomes. By doing so, society at large will be able to make better informed decisions because they know the implications of those decisions, essentially collectively designing the future of the city.
