Autonomous Symmetry
Traffic Analysis + City Planning, but for Automated Traffic
plan cities for autonomous transit
Autonomous freeway from above with no cover
Existing freeways were not designed for the superior lane merging of autonomous vehicles, nor were they made straight enough for zooming through cities at one hundred twenty mile per hour. Because of autonomous vehicles' physically light touch, autonomous freeways will only need a fraction of the concrete and steel as existing freeways, but could carry three times the traffic volume and zero traffic congestion. If planned with big ambitions and big maps, autonomous freeways could go more places and be physically cushioned to make them visually and audibly unnoticeable from the ground.
Autonomous freeway underpass - Atlanta
Peachtree Street
Where could the future's quiet, fast, easy-to-scale autonomous freeways be built and what property easements could be made in advance? I am developing autonomous freeway maps, autonomous mobility algorithms, cost models, and legal strategies so cities can avoid hard tradeoffs and delayed expansions in the next ten to fifteen years.
One metropolis, but where to put Dallas's autonomous central business district?
