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Changing Lanes

Andrew Miller, Bryant Walker Smith, Bern Grush
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Navigate the future of mobility, AI, and innovation, with insights for investors, decision-makers, and futurists.

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First Tempe and Utrecht, Now Toronto

Today’s guest post comes from Bern Grush of the Urban Robotics Foundation, my co-author on The End of Driving (Elsevier, 2025). Bern writes about YZD, a Toronto neighbourhood in the making, and his hopes that YZD take the opportunity to be...

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Put the panels on the roofs of buildings, not cars

After a much-needed summer hiatus to recharge my batteries, Changing Lanes is back! I am looking forward to bringing you a variety of pieces this fall across a wide array of topics. I had...

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Book Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies [repost]

The central claim of my review of this book is that the book, IABIED, never establishes its premise that a capable AI must come to actually want things. In the spirit of full disclosure, last month Anthropic produced a report that suggests...

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The 50% Problem [repost]

Waymo’s service levels have doubled since I wrote this—250,000 paid trips a week then, 500,000 now, a million promised by year-end—but that is still about a hundredth of one per cent of American car trips. The 50 per cent threshold I write...

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Please Give Me 40 Seconds of Your Time

I’ve put a panel into SXSW 2027: Robotaxis Are Coming: Five Decisions Your City Must Make. SXSW decides part of its programming by public vote, and that vote is open now… but closes on Sunday, 23 August 2026.

Here’s the link.

Voting will...

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  • Andrew Miller

    Urbanist, cyclist, and transport enthusiast. Author, speaker, consultant. Fellow, Roots of Progress Institute.

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    Executive Director, Urban Robotics Foundation.

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    Risk mitigation for public-area mobile robots

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