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The simple cul-de-sac is one of the greatest innovations of North American suburbia. By blocking through traffic, you create a residential street that’s safer and calmer for kids and that’s quieter and more community-oriented for adults. The suburbs have the advantage of being built like this from the start, but can we retrofit older cities with some of these principles?

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oh so we're doing scooby doo crimes now

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remember when steve from blues clues was upset that people thought he died in a car crash, not because people thought he was dead but because they said he was driving a dodge charger and "that's a cop car"

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🦅🦅🦅🦅OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEE🦅🦅🦅🦅

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But even if we get accessible robotaxis that can safely move around cities, around children, in all kinds of weather, that are miraculously affordable and serve lower-income and less dense communities, it’s critical to ask if this is actually the future we want. We need to proactively consider the larger land use and public health impacts if autonomous vehicles succeed. Just as wider roads and highways induce more driving, longer commutes and unsustainable, sprawling suburbs, making driving less stressful or attention demanding from drivers will likely induce longer commutes and trips (for example, if you can do a work call, watch a movie, or read a book to your kid while you drive, you may be willing to live forty miles away from where you work or the nearest grocery store). Such land use patterns that essentially require driving to access basic services will be seriously detrimental to those of us who can’t use or can’t afford autonomous vehicles. If we are serious about stopping climate change and creating more rollable, walkable communities with essential services within easy reach of every household, the acceptance and promotion of autonomous vehicles punishes us in exactly the opposite direction. We are accustomed to placing our hopes and dreams in new technologies that remove barriers and increase inclusion. We want this access. We dream of a day when our disabilities won’t prevent us from fully participating in our communities. And so when AV companies invest resources in outreach to the disability community, promising us a more inclusive future in exchange for our stories and our support, we want to believe they can deliver. But we need to remember these companies are ultimately answering to the interests of investors. If our needs are inconvenient or costly, we see how quickly they can be ignored. (...) Instead of allowing ourselves to be distracted by promises of future technology that will only exist if it generates profits, we must remember that we can create the change we need right now. It’s a matter of organizing, of building power and demanding that we can build and must build communities that are accessible to everyone.  

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Informational booklet from the Museum of Science and Industry's 1984 50th Anniversary of the Pioneer Zephyr event A Celebration of Railroading.

"The Pioneer Zephyr in Detail" was a four-page centerfold that folded out from the "Zephyr Trivia" pages.