SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 PROGRAM:
Driverless Cars in the Sharing Economy
Driverless Cars in the Sharing Economy
A little more than a century ago, we transitioned from horse-drawn vehicles to automobiles and we are about to go through a similar transition from automobiles to autonomous vehicles, which will have an equally enormous effect on how we live, work, and move around. This is not a far-off change. It will happen within the next decade or two and will affect the infrastructure we are putting in place today. Nor will this be a slow and gradual change: It will happen rapidly, as it did a century ago, with an enormous impact on both the private and public sectors.
Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture, the Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design at the University of Minnesota, and the Director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the College of Design. He was recognized in 2005 as the fifth most published writer about architecture in the United States and has been recognized four times as a top design educator by the journal Design Intelligence. He has written 9 books, over 50 book chapters or introductions, and over 400 articles in professional journals and major publications. His newest book, published in May by the University of Minnesota Press, is entitled Designing Our Way to a Better World.