Just as self-driving test fleets expand and autonomous vehicles engender a more efficient, uncluttered urban transit future, data is beginning to show that so far, ride-hailing/sharing is making urban traffic congestion worse, not better.
“Without public policy intervention, big American cities are likely to be overwhelmed with more automobility, more traffic and less transit,” Bruce Schaller, a Brooklyn-based transportation consultant and former deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation wrote in his 37-page report “The New Automobility: Lyft, Uber and the Future of American Cities,” released July 25.
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