Apple’s self-driving system and/or car project has been in the news again recently. Last month, Bloomberg reported that the company was hoping to start production by as early as 2024. But this week, projections were revised and we’re probably looking at least 5 years. The… Read More
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A moral compass for autonomous vehicles
One of the challenges that self-driving vehicles present is not about technology per se, it is about ethics. The typical example scenario is this one: If a pedestrian were to step out in front of an autonomous vehicle illegally, should the car be programmed to… Read More
The neighborhood of the future
Daniel Doctoroff (chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs and former deputy mayor of New York City) and Eric Schmidt (executive chairman of Alphabet and former CEO of Google) recently contributed a piece to the Globe and Mail about “why Toronto is the ideal place to build… Read More
The death of Big Oil
Designing a building for 5+ years into the future can be tricky. The pace of change in the world today is astounding. Last month Seth Miller published a Medium article called: This is how Big Oil will die. His argument is that the cost of running… Read More
Slot-based intersections
If you don’t follow the work of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, I highly recommend that you start. Earlier this year, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Swiss Institute of Technology, and the Italian National Research Council developed something that they call “slot-based intersections.” In… Read More