The policy implications of self-driving cars

Parking reform, the end of shitty transit, and more

Ten years ago, we saw a crescendo of hype around self-driving cars that then went into abeyance when the problem turned out to be harder to solve than the biggest optimists had hoped. Elon Musk certainly didn’t help. He salted the earth a bit by being incredibly famous and extremely vocal, continually making inaccurate promises and engaging in deceptive…