This chart remains undefeated

Robotaxis are grabbing headlines, but autonomous vehicles that are owned, not shared, could dominate our self-driven future. That would be very bad news for cities, the environment, and anyone in a human-driven car. Me, in @bloomberg.com 🧵 (Gift Link)

crimes you do with a car aren’t really crimes and fines assessed for them exist solely to raise revenue

This is a tack I’d love to see Dems take more. Harken back to FDR

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Free idea: the Monday after the time change

Folding Ideas just one of the best to do it. This is fascinating, and I can honestly say I went in expecting it would be too meta to be of interest to me. No! A cool look into a weird little (huge) world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwa...

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

People think that what Wall Street guys fear is being in the market as it crashes, but the thing that's in all of their heads is the opposite - fear of missing out on the fast market rebound as Trump turns everything around, as many did in 2020 during Covid.

“In England, 100 miles is far. In America, 100 years is old”

common Expanse w

"Focusing on deaths per mile driven is like trying to reduce the number of cancer deaths per cigarette smoked"

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric). "AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

I know people on this website are likely to be more amenable to this than I am, but I want to stress that institutional investor purchases of single family homes are a microscopic share of the market and so you’re basically not gonna see material changes in home prices from this

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that

This has been common knowledge since cars were introduced. Disney made a short about it in 1950!

This was part of the IIJA! It was (is?) supposed to go into effect next year

again, ignition interlocks are one of those things where there basically *really is* a technological solution to the problem that greatly mitigates that tradeoffs, and it's a policy failure that they aren't mandatory for five years after your first DUI.

All of that said, Trump has created a golden opportunity for Democrats, who can now badger his administration about legalizing small electric vehicles that would be fantastic for urban mobility. Here's hoping they'll seize it.

this should just immediately write you a ticket when you turn it on

Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale: "Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects. US transport spending increased by 30%, but: —Funding for non-highway projects flatlined —Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure

@brett-taylor.bsky.social free post idea in this thread

So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

Don't think I've ever seen a shortstop dominate a series defensively the way Dansby is right now.

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

When an entry-level Volvo can get to 60 mph quicker than a Porsche 911, and in the same time as a Ferrari, electric car makers need a reset. Read more: wrd.cm/3W2xAb1

[to the tune of Hakuna Matata] 🎶Dikembe Mutombo🎶

As autonomous vehicles spread across the US, they could turn urban streets into a congested, chaotic mess. But it’s not inevitable. In @vox.com, I proposed specific ways cities can future-proof themselves for self-driving cars. 🧵

The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.

Andy Beshear should run for the Senate seat he can probably win. For all of us and for a lot of reasons. Rather than a Presidency he almost certainly can’t.

Megaprojects like high speed rail or nuclear power should be commissioned and funded on a rolling annual basis, not a per-project basis. Spin up your High Speed Department and give them £10bn a year to build railways until you say stop.

Great quote from Mayor Bhalla of Hoboken: "When we say 'No parking' in front of a fire hydrant, do people say, 'You’re taking away a parking spot?' We need to start looking at daylighting the same way. That’s not a space to park, because of safety reasons." @ravibhalla.bsky.social

This new rail line, the most ambitious in 90 years, could change the face of New York City. We hopped on a freight train to film the route, and show its potential. Take a look! 🚂 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu. An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan, Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

Judge: But that's not where we live (in a monarchy). We live in *response* to a monarchy.

NEW A little-noticed provision in the Senate budget bill would gut the government’s long-running CAFE fuel economy program for cars & light trucks. The provision sets all penalties for automakers who run afoul of the rules to zero — essentially repealing the law. heatmap.news/politics/cor...

Making It Safer To Bike Gets More People To Ride Bikes, Shocking Study Shows

Parking is the "dark matter" of urban land use. Learn about how it saps communities of vitality & raises costs -- and how Washington state recently reformed it. Juicy stuff.

Somebody needs to have a come to Jesus with Andy Beshear about this. There are at least a dozen Dems who could win the presidency. There’s only one who could win a statewide race in Kentucky

Put another way, 29% of drivers will never yield for a person walking. This is why drivers must be forced by infrastructure to slow or stop at crossings

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...