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Driverless vehicles and pedestrians don't mix. So how do we re-arrange our cities?

  • Written by Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
Autonomous vehicles can only travel at speed at close quarters in the absence of human drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.posteriori/Shutterstock

Videos showing autonomous or self-driving vehicles weaving in and out of crossroads at speed without colliding suggest this technology will solve traffic problems. You almost never see pedestrians or...

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