NYC gains nothing from waymo. Elsewhere, driverless rides may help us overcome the insidious psychology of driving and car ownership, that subconscious shoring up of security and identity that makes otherwise reasonable people hostile towards alternative transportation--maybe.
@brooklynspoke.bsky.socialOy. In a world where most US cities have barely scratched the surface of what bikes and transit can do — and where the federal government is actively hostile to such projects — we're a long way from driverless cars being a nice little "missing middle" of urban mobility.