The Future of City Planning With Autonomous Vehicles

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I think a lot of people are going to say, why don't we even bother owning a car? You can fit maybe three of them in every two lanes of city traffic that you use today. If there are certain streets that are AV only, what that will let you do is get a lot more throughput for a lot less square feet of city space. And so I think we'll be able to reclaim a lot of that space for other purposes while still being able to move a large number of people to our cities per square foot of road area"

At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. arms race?

And, after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a ride through San Francisco in Banana Slug — an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise’s chief executive, Kyle Vogt, to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.

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Kyle Vogt is the chief executive of Cruise, a self-driving car company.

Additional reading:

At their annual conference, Google announced dozens of A.I. products and features
In a leaked memo, a Google researcher argued that the company did not have a strong A.I. moat because of open-source A.I. companies.
Self-driving cars are expanding their footprint.