Why cities are writing their own standards for scooters and AVs:
of Uber and Lyft is that instead of “filling empty seats in cars,” as they promised to do, they created empty seats on public transit. Rather than plugging gaps in service, they chased riders in some of the richest transit corridors in the country, jamming streets with drivers waiting for a fare.
Streets and sidewalks have no such conditions. There are codes and rules, of course — along with fines and other legal remedies that carry steep costs in enforcement - but these regulations can’t keep up with scooters, sidewalk robots, and delivery drones, so they proliferate faster than cities can keep up. Following their own playbooks of “,” these swarms may or may not help cities meet residents’ goals, and without regulation, very few share data about their impacts.
Cities embracing MDS have reclaimed some of their agency from private actors, and now have a potential path to a digital public realm mirroring the physical one. Like all software, MDS can also evolve faster than typical city regulations. But it doesn’t set policy; it expresses those policies through technology.
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