Highways
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Masters of Scale 
the Neon Show 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Highways, every show
Russell: Highways are far more practical than urban environments for autonomy
“Urban environments are very, very challenging because there's so many variables, so many things you can throw at it. Highways makes a ton of sense.”
Building highways and the Ayodhya temple share a unified civilizational agenda
“In the end, I'm trying to rebuild a civilization. I'm not building just an economy. The economy is a part of it, but the overall purpose is rebuilding the civilization. So building a highway and rebuilding the Ayodhya temple are a part of the same agenda, and …”
Evans: Autonomous vehicles will travel in 150 mph highway pelotons
“You could start having pelotons of cars. So you've got 15 cars all going down the highway two feet behind each other at a 150 miles an hour.”
Chen: Adding Highway Capacity Increases Commute Times via Induced Demand
“Every new commute modality, like when we introduce highways, commute times increase. You would have thought the opposite, but economists explain this as induced or latent demand, which is when you add freeway miles, you just get more drivers. Congestion doesn'…”