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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.
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He was struck and badly injured by a car driver. But his injuries weren’t sufficient to trigger a real police investigation. And therein lies the problem.
Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out — and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent.
President Trump sort of inadvertently made an argument for banning horse carriages from Central Park on Thursday when he critiicized the City Council’s 40-7-2 vote to end the Central Park horse carriage industry with an ill-conceived analogy to cars.
The city’s much-anticipated program to require speed-limiting devices inside the cars of repeatedly reckless drivers will launch next year, though questions remain.