The tech industry's intervention into transportation in particular is building on the legacy of what Detroit and the traditional auto industry has built. And so if we fast forward a while, you know, this is a very kind of a bridged version of that history. It's not to try to reimagine it or look fundamentally changes or anything like that. Our community should still be largely designed around automobiles. But we're going to insert our technologies within the automobile rather than upending them.
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.