How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

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: @[email protected] 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 This video was made with video filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, stock footage from Getty Images, and specialty scenes filmed by videographers who were hired for this project. The 3D scenes were created by a professional 3D artist. No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video --- 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