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Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities

  • Written by Dominic Stead, Delft University of Technology

Autonomous, or driverless, vehicles can support and promote active travel, such as walking and cycling, when two basic conditions are met:

  1. their access to cities is restricted
  2. their use is pooled.

In the absence of these two conditions, autonomous vehicles could lead to a decline in active travel in cities and an increase in economic, social and...

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