Full Speed Ahead: How The Driverless Car Could Transform Cities

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It’s 6 p.m. in Tempe, Arizona and pitch-black outside. I’m standing in the middle of a five-lane thoroughfare, among a group of people too numerous for the narrow median.

Connected Driverless Cars Are The Key to A Smarter, Safer City

Full speed ahead: How the driverless car could transform cities. Friday, 14 August 2015. McKinsey & Company. Self-driving cars are not just about a hands-free driving experience.

Driverless car and the future of cities

In theory, autonomous vehicles can use road networks more efficiently and thus free up some road space if trip generation rate and population growth are held constant. This space can be

5G vital for autonomous vehicles to run. Carllender/flickr, CC BY. The slowly turning gears of policymakers are currently lagging behind the astronomical progress of

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Changes in urban planning: Driverless cars have the potential to change how cities are designed, with less need for parking spaces and more emphasis on pedestrian-friendly

The race to develop driverless vehicles is zooming full-speed ahead, engaging all the major car companies—as well as Google X, Apple, and various start-ups. Though schemes

Self-driving vehicles are steadily becoming a reality despite the many hurdles still to be overcome – and they could change our world in some unexpected ways.

Self-driving cars could steer China’s automotive industry into the passing lane. From driverless taxis to automated cargo trucks, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will change the

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FOR FUTURE CITIES: DRIVERLESS CARS. We can regain our city streets for people as the driverless car revolution takes hold. By ANDY COHEN . dialogue. NO. 30 / THE LIVABILITY ISSUE W e’re at a watershed moment in the design

Self-driving vehicles are steadily becoming a reality despite the many hurdles still to be overcome – and they could change our world in some unexpected ways.

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Transport innovation, disruption and automation provide the potential to dramatically change travel and our urban landscapes over the coming years. This

As future autonomous vehicles become safer and more efficient, they will rely on high-bandwidth mobile networks to wirelessly share and receive data from each other. Self

Driverless cars, also known as autonomous vehicles, are vehicles that do not require a human operator to function. They use advanced sensors, software, and artificial

Imagine the time you could save with driverless cars! Quirky Science Stories. One time, a Tesla Model S was seen ordering pizza online while parked! The driver had gone inside to grab a

Full speed ahead: How the driverless car could transform cities | McKinsey & Company. Just like Ford’s Model T, which debuted in 1908, today’s automobiles have four tires, a steering wheel,

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The dawn of the driverless car promises a transportation revolution. Advocates claim this will change lives as radically as the Internet changed communication. But there are

Meanwhile, questions are emerging about how AVs could change the form and structure of cities, towns, and roadways. Much of the research—at venues including MIT, IIT, and Carnegie Mellon University—has examined this

Outside the car, radar, cameras, and laser scanners can “read” the road and then respond. Autonomous cars are at the nexus of these two lines of development, benefiting from

SAN FRANCISCO — By now, seeing one of Google’s experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley’s Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all

New automotive active-safety systems could provide a route to autonomous cars. Yet the auto industry has work to do to convert consumer interest in these features into actual

Urban planners can ditch those outdated layouts and transform the city into a joyful mess of throughways and byways optimized not for cars but for people.

How AD could transform the passenger car market. Given today’s high levels of uncertainty in the auto industry, McKinsey has developed three scenarios for autonomous

Driverless cars have the potential to change everything: transportation, health, the economy and the entire look of the urban landscape. Experts predict these vehicles could be

The advancement of driverless technology could also transform the logistics industry, creating more jobs in logistics management and vehicle dispatching sectors. For

mid-distance hub-to-hub autonomous trucks could make up around 26% of new truck sales by 2035. China is projected to follow a slower adoption pathway, mainly due to lower TCO

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The way I see it, driverless cars are the catalyst for taking our city streets back for people and creating memorable experiences that rival the great walkable cities of the world—places like Copenhagen, Paris, and Vancouver.

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