Mobility and Innovation resources, news, and musings.
If you have a minute, take a look at Kevin Vincent’s article on how to provide regulatory certainty for AVs with performance and process standards and assurances about the decision-making abilities of AVs. This week’s webinar with NHTSA’s Acting Administrator and Kevin is the closest thing to an audible version of the same. (I will add the link when it is available.)
If you are looking to up your street cred on AVs, Mobility Hubs, and Curbside Management you might want to check out this curated list of readings that Lisa Nisenson and I put together for our poster session for Urbanism Next and my class for AVs and Land Use at ESI.
I finished Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race and have moved on to Julia Sweig’s Hiding in Plain Sight — a new biography of Lady Bird Johnson. And there is a 9-part podcast based on the recordings.
Here’s a teaser:
For the biography, Julia Sweig studied the unredacted daily taped diaries and papers of Lady Bird. Sweig shares memos from Lady Bird to the other LBJ including one from late 1963 foretelling his decision not to run for reelection In 1968.(Here is a podcast about that with material from Lady Bird 14 days into Johnson’s Presidency.) She accounts the First Lady’s whistle stop tour in 1964 that reveal her as a campaigner that Eleanor Roosevelt never was. Now I am immersed in the details of how her beautification work scaffolded for urban renewal as well as conservation and environmental legislation. She was friends with Jane Jacobs!
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Have a good weekend!
