The Ledger, every show
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Pope: Future cities will restrict human drivers to dedicated lanes
“And at that point, we will have to take the right to drive away from people, unless they're in dedicated, you can drive it lanes. We now have bike lanes which are dedicated and special. You can drive your own vehicle lanes are going to become dedicated and spe…”
Pope: US cities devote more space to parking than housing
“From my perspective, we have to remember that in every American city, with the possible exception of New York, more space is devoted to sleeping cars than sleeping people.”
Pope: Autonomous vehicles will hollow out inner-ring suburbs
“Then all of a sudden, a huge amount of urban real estate, downtown central city real estate opens up. And I think what it does is it sucks both residential and business activity away from the inner ring of suburbs. Those hollow out, and then we have the challe…”
Pope: The autonomous vehicle transition could be complete by 2025
“So it might start a little later than the optimists think. Might start in 2022, but it might be over by 2025.”
Pope: Driving your own car will become an expensive luxury option
“And once you start selling autonomous cars in large numbers, people will not buy cars that have to be driven. Being able to drive your own car is going to become a very expensive option. It's going to be like leather seats, but much more expensive.”
Pope: At 70% AV adoption, pedestrians will cross streets without looking
“We'll reach a tipping point when, say, 70% of the vehicles on the road are being driven by a robot which, like a horse, will not run someone down. And at that point, pedestrians are going to start crossing streets the way they did in 1900, without looking and …”
Pope: Driving is the largest U.S. profession and will be automated away
“We're going to lose the largest profession in the United States, which is driver.”
Pope: To screen-native youth, manually driven cars are ox carts
“And for this generation, the automobile is an ox cart if you have to drive it.”
Carl Pope: Apartment prices will fall when parking requirements are removed
“And the price of your apartment will go down when the apartment building no longer has to provide a parking space.”
Pope: Every shared vehicle replaces eight private cars
“Every shared vehicle replaces roughly eight other vehicles, even today with today's technology and today's ownership patterns.”
Pope: Youth status competition has shifted from automobiles to electronics
“For kids today, when they're six, they start competing for who has the best electronic objects. So they actually have focused status on handheld electronic objects, whether they're game consoles or phones.”
Pope: Ford cars contain more lines of code than a Boeing 757
“Ford is already making cars that have more code in them than a seven 57.”
Pope: Fleet owners will let riders order modular cars customized with specific options
“I think cars become very modular. I think you have a basic chassis and drive train. And then it can be easily outfitted and perhaps outfitted by the fleet owner to be a really small, it takes two people to work to it's for a date night. And the fleet owners wi…”
Pope: Shared Autonomous Fleets Will Drive Shift to Electric Vehicles
“The key intervention here, which I'm hoping cities will guarantee, is to make sure that autonomy comes with sharing, with fleet use. Because once that happens, that drives you for a whole host of reasons to electric vehicles.”