Sally Kohn: I want to ask you about dialectics because you come in this from a leftist perspective. We've got this really interesting situation with full self driving where it's like a scam, she says. She asks if we just took our world and made every car that's on the road can drive itself now; would automobility be destroyed? Kohn: If cars could really drive themselves, it's both the utopia that everyone thinks that we're moving towards based on car culture. But it's also where car culture ends when the roads are just jammed or become parking lots,. Do you think?
Paris Marx is the host of the popular tech-critical podcast Tech Won't Save Us, and the author of a new book called Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. On this week's episode, Paris joins Kirsten and Ed for a wide-ranging look at his left-of-center critiques of the mobility technology sector and his arguments for a less "solutionist" approach to our mobility challenges.