Portland’s cautious approach to AVs should prevent what just happened in Tempe
PBOT’s planning is a bulwark against deadly robot cars.
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Could driving get catastrophically cheap? One smart Portlander speculates
“Hopefully we’ll have the foresight to tax taxi fares.”
Reinventing taxis, part 1: A Q&A with Uber’s Northwest regional manager
Brooke Steiger, Uber’s Washington general manager.(Photo: M.Andersen/BikePortland) Portland is now one of just two major U.S. cities where you can’t hail a ride with either Uber or Lyft — and that’s something the car-summoning companies would, of course, love to change. The services essentially let anyone who passes their background checks become a paid cab … Read more
Comment of the Week: How self-driving cars are actually going to work
“Car, take me to IKEA.”
Google says self-driving car can predict gestures, movement of bike riders
Google touts that its self-driving car can handle the urban streetscape including detection of — and reaction to — a hand signal of a bicycle rider