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Cities with overbuilt roadways have experienced unintended consequences, linked to radical drops in puplic transport, walking, and cycling. In many cases, streets became void of “life.” Stores, schools, government centers and libraries moved away from central cities, and residents who did not flee to the suburbs experienced a much reduced quality of public space and of public services. As schools were closed their mega-school replacements in outlying areas generated additional traffic; the number of cars on US roads between 7:15 and 8:15 a.m. increases 30% during the school year

Driver less car

The car drives itself. The passengers are being chauffeured by computer.

Seen at the VAIL autonomous driving and parking demonstration at Stanford this weekend.

Here’s a short of this VW parking itself.

The roof is festooned with spinning LIDAR and cameras, feeding into the server farm in the trunk. With more processing power, I’m guessing that the expensive laser rangefinders will be less essential as the 2D video cameras alone can render a 3D map of the world, much like our brain.

In case you’re wondering, they do have an idea of how to hide all of that equipment, and with Moore’s Law, it will all be soon affordable. Example  with no people in the car.

The next generation may wonder why we wasted 80% of the carrying capacity of our highways, why truckers fell asleep, or what all the fuss was about parallel parking.

benz velo

Benz "Velo" model (1894) by German inventorCarl Benz – entered into an early automobile race as a motocycle[1][2]
Classification	Vehicle
Industry	Various
Application	Transportation
Fuel source	Gasoline, Diesel, Electric,Hydrogen, Solar energy
Powered	Yes
Self-propelled	Yes
Wheels	3–4
Axles	1–2
Inventor	Ferdinand Verbiest

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This Lamborghini Egoista is what the guys at Lamborghini felt like gifting themselves on their 50th Anniversary - an outrageous supercar that makes everything else look ancient

The Pagani Zonda Revolucion is the last version of the iconic hypercar and is powered by a fire-breathing 6.0-liter V12 developing 811PS and 730 Nm of torque

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