S2E5 - Peter Norton, The Past and Future of Driving in High-Tech Cities
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The Importance of the Elevator Analogy
In both of your books, the idea that seems really important is this asymmetry among road users. So pedestrians are just fundamentally more vulnerable on the road than drivers and cars for a pedestrian. The worst case outcome here is serious injury or death. For a driver, maybe it's minor inconvenience. I kind of wondered if, given that asymmetry, the most likely outcome under most alternative versions of history would have been for cars to take over streets. And that only dramatic and strong policies protecting space for pedestrians or protecting the rights of other road users have maintained a different kind of balance of uses. What do you think about that argument? Fascinating, important thought provoking, and I'll make a
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