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When the Chicago City Council signed off on the meter deal, they didn’t just trade away parking revenue. They traded away Chicago’s streets themselves. They lost control over rates but also control over the curbs—how they could be used, and by whom.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
AI will not transform the rivalry between powers so much as it will transform the rivals themselves. The United States is a democracy, whereas China is an authoritarian regime, and machine learning challenges each political system in its own way.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
Yet many governments in the US and Europe continue to heavily subsidise driving through a combination of incentives such as subsidies for fossil fuel production, tax allowances for commuting by car, and incentives for company cars that promote driving over other means of transport. Essentially, such measures pay polluters while imposing the social costs on wider society.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
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