What impact will driverless cars have on our future buildings?

By Ike Ijeh2018-10-17T06:00:00

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How will electric-powered private-hire driverless cars change the way in which we design buildings and utilise land?

CAVs offer the biggest opportunity to redesign our urban environment since the invention of the motor car itself. Like the internet and mobile phones, if implemented wisely it can be a force for enormous good. But it represents a retrofit rather than a reinvention. The car was created to meet 20th-century problems, constraints and aspirations. Will the cities of the 21st century choose to rely on an upgrade of a 20th-century solution when – in the same way the first combustible engines rejected rather than adapted the horse and cart – they could come up with brand-new solutions of their own?

“Because these vehicles will ultimately be allowed to travel at high rates of speed, suburban sprawl can easily extend for 100 miles or more”

Kinder Baumgardner, SWA

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