Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won’t guarantee road safety. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous.Īs Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere electric cars to make them ‘green’ and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous.
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