158. Elon Musk’s Wrong, Driverless Cars Make Things Worse and Buses are the Future of Transportation | Jarrett Walker
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Jarrett Walker (@humantransit) is an international public transit network design and policy consultant and the author of popular public transit blog HumanTransit.org, and the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking...
show moreHis background integrates an arts and humanities Ph.D. with long technical experience in all aspects of transit and its role in city-building. He is a frequent keynote speaker, teacher, and facilitator of decision-making processes.
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to engineer cities so ALMOST everyone wins
- What does the future of urban transit look like
- Why autonomous vehicles actually lead to more traffic
- The reason Uber and Lyft are part of the problem
- The geometric test to any transportation claim
- Why the Boring Company is bogus
- The law of induced demand and its implications
- How tech marketing twists issues and creates bigger problems
- What Jarrett thinks about electric scooters and micro-mobility
- Where we’re at in the IoT hype cycle
- Thoughts on regulating and market distortions
- Why cars are a dead-end future
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