Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
It cannot be repeated enough that while electric cars are an important harm reduction strategy for our climate crisis, the effort will do absolutely nothing to slow the other global crisis that’s killing over a million people every year: the traffic violence pandemic.
Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause for Automakers’ Big EV Promises
Kea Wilson
As long as we encourage Americans to think of their homes as an investment and allow every small suburb to incorporate and determine what can and can’t be built, zoning will always serve to perpetuate housing scarcity, stagnation, segregation, and sprawl.
Arbitrary Lines
M. Nolan Gray
For every successful demo, there might be dozens of failed ones. And whereas you only need to see a person behind the wheel for a few minutes to judge if they can drive or not, computers don’t work that way. If a self-driving car successfully navigates a route, there’s no guarantee it can do so the 20th time, or even the second.
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
bloomberg.com
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise