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These Futuristic Driverless Car Intersections Forgot About Pedestrians and Cyclists
It would be a huge mistake for cities to undo all the progress being made on human-scale street design.
The super smart folks at MIT’s Senseable City Lab have produced this great video of how an urban intersection might operate in a world of driverless cars. The smart, signal-free crossing offers everything we want from autonomous vehicles: fewer emissions, better traffic flow, less delay—all at a collision cost of zero. The MIT team visualized this “digital traffic controller” as part of a project called DriveWAVE: