Support Not Just Bikes by signing up to Nebula: http://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-selfdriving-cars-will-destroy-cities Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Mastodon: @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): https://youtube.com/@njblive --- Related Videos Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05] https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05 https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-more-lanes-are-still-a-bad-thing https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4 Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-cities-aren-t-loud-cars-are-loud https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8 --- References & Further Reading Safe Street Rebel - Not without a fight https://www.safestreetrebel.com/ Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-driverless-cars-block-ambulance-on-way-to-hospital Explore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept. https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/ What is Vision Zero? https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/ Uber Takes Us for a Ride https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-for-a-ride Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/robotaxis-wont-get-us-there-so-lets-stop-being-used-to-sell-a-future-that-doesnt-serve-us/ Segregation by Design https://www.segregationbydesign.com/ cars.destroyed.our.cities https://www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/ Bamberg merchants, city officials say downtown open for business https://thetandd.com/news/bamberg-merchants-city-officials-say-downtown-open-for-business/article_fec5d451-61bd-5fe2-904c-bdfecdb19392.html Historical photos of Utrecht https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/ Historical photos of Fake London https://search.ourontario.ca/ https://images.ourontario.ca/london/search De Markt in gebruik als parkeerplaats voor auto's. https://hdl.handle.net/21.12115/NL-DtAD211303220 The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link: https://notjustbikes.com/references/selfdrivingcars.txt --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:17 Reasons for optimism & skepticism 2:33 Moving fast and breaking people 8:50 Fatal Uber Crash 10:34 The Real Road Safety Issue 14:27 Promoting car-centric cities 17:03 Cheaper taxis (yay?) 21:07 Traffic congestion will be even worse 25:19 The promised future (past and present) 28:04 How AVs will destroy cities 29:56 Eliminating public transit 32:37 Consuming all streets 34:02 Eliminating pedestrians 36:05 Eliminating speed limits 38:05 Pollution and noise 39:41 Eliminating traffic lights 42:16 Do we actually need AVs? 43:28 Utrecht vs Fake London 48:33 What should we do about it? 51:53 Where to learn more & Nebula