Historian Peter Norton isn't confident cars will fix the problems cars caused.
one of his Teslas would be able to drive itself from Los Angeles to New York with “full autonomy” by the following year.due to its faulty so-called Full Self-Driving software. That came after federal regulators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration noted the risk of crashes for drivers who engage the experimental feature.documented by the local transit agency “where self-driving taxis created mayhem on city streets — disrupting traffic ... transit and emergency responders.
Norton pointed to the tobacco industry as a comparable example. Research into the serious health hazards of smoking in the 1950s led to the landmark“That was a very constructive indication that government really can learn and can care about the public interest and do something about it,” Norton said.
Norton argues self-driving cars don’t properly address the underlying issues that make driving a dangerous, cumbersome activity — and actually divert attention away from solutions that have worked elsewhere. “Proximity, in short, is better than all the tech in the world in terms of making mobility safer, with less congestion,” he said.
“Even without autonomous vehicles — so-called — around, we have a world where a lot of people can’t afford a car,” he said. “Then we make a world for them that presumes that they have one — such that if they don’t, they’re in deep trouble. ... If we think that the solution is to develop tech that’s extremely expensive and equip cars with it, we’re doing exactly the wrong thing.
That would require a level of “humility that we have lacked in this country to learn from success stories abroad,” he said. “We have in the U.S. a country that has often been quite proud of itself in a way that makes it unwilling to learn from others.”Note: Some of the sites we link to may limit the number of stories you can access without subscribing.Los Angeles County will pay $28.
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