Design and Architecture
Even Santa Monica needs the car
Autonomous cars will bring a utopian future: an end to car collisions, no need for parking lots, smooth-flowing less congested streets. But even as cities embrace those possibilities, they fear the loss of revenue -- from cars!
By Frances Anderton • • 1 min readAutonomous cars will bring a utopian future: an end to car collisions, no need for parking lots, smooth-flowing less congested streets. But even as cities embrace those possibilities, they fear the loss of revenue -- from cars!
Traffic in Santa Monica. The city derives much of its revenue from auto-related sources. Photo credit: Alex Proimos.
