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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Driverless cars, sitcom house plans

Hosted by Frances Anderton Sep. 06, 2016
Uber is launching a fleet of semi-autonomous cars on the streets of Pittsburgh. What does this mean for the design of the city and for Uber drivers? And what will it feel like to be a passenger in a driverless car of the future? Plus, an artist draws plans of the imaginary homes of his favorite TV sitcoms.

Photo: A prototype of a driverless car made by students in ArtCenter College of Design's "Driving Sensations" class. (Nik Hafermaas)

From this Episode:

Driverless cars

You've heard the buzz about driverless cars. Well, they are coming soon to a road near you. Uber is about to launch a fleet of autonomous cars onto the streets of...

8 min

Driverless cars are here

We've been hearing about Uber's new driverless fleet of cars in Pittsburgh, and whether human driving will become a thing of the past. Critics say neither the infrastructure...

4 min

Driving sensations at ArtCenter

Most coverage of self-driving, or autonomous, cars has focused on the technology and the infrastructure to make this possible. But a recent course taught at the ArtCenter...

7 min

Mark Bennett celebrates sitcoms

Before driverless cars there were regular families living in nice tract homes with a car in the driveway.

9 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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