Alex roy, perston corse and ed nidermir join Nathaniel Hordam on the atonic ast. They discuss how public sector education could be used to develop autonomous vehicles. The panel will also talk about whether or not there is a future for driverless cars in this country.
Transit advocates have made autonomous vehicles something of a boogeyman lately, framing the emerging technology as a way to perpetuate the car's mobility monopoly and starve public transit of funding. In reality, transit is one of the most compelling applications and automation is a huge opportunity to dramatically improve public transit. To help explain this opportunity, Nathaniel Horadam of the Center for Transportation and the Environment joins the show to discuss a light-rail style automated bus rapid transit project he's been working on, and the automated transit opportunity more broadly.