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Autonomous vehicles will likely be safer than cars with human drivers. There, we said it. But the long-term ramifications of unleashing driverless cars — the increase in vehicle miles traveled, the congestion, the loss of jobs for taxi drivers — were not on Gov. Hochul’s agenda yesterday when she announced an expansion of testing of the driverless cars all over the state.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, plenty, according to our story.
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A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.
A huge sweep for the kind of candidates that Streetsblog readers like. Plus other news.
Will Senate Democrats leverage the proposed Build America 250 Act to end President Trump’s meddling in transportation funding?
A single unmarked NYPD car has been nabbed by city speeding cameras hundreds of times over the past three years — but there’s no paperwork disputing the tickets as essential to police work.
Memo of agreement? To Janno Lieber, the Amtrak offer sounds more like a memo of disagreement!
The NYPD and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have cracked down on stores that sell illegal electric two-wheelers, but the city isn’t doing anything about online sales.
American manufacturers have failed to create top-notch plug-in buses.
We asked Hizzoner about the citizen idling program, and it wasn’t clear he knew all the details. Plus other news.
Lower Manhattan merchants see green in proposals to pedestrianize the Financial District.
