{"id":923274,"date":"2026-04-28T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:17:11","slug":"are-u-s-cities-ready-for-the-robo-taxi-revolution-streetsblog-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923274\/","title":{"rendered":"Are U.S. Cities Ready for the Robo-Taxi Revolution? \u2014 Streetsblog USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robo-taxis from companies like Waymo are already rolling onto roads across America, whether or not cities are ready for them. But <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/20\/avs-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-uber-robotaxis-self-driving-cars-david-zipper\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/20\/avs-autonomous-vehicles-waymo-uber-robotaxis-self-driving-cars-david-zipper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more and more people<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/08\/waymo-testing-driverless-cars-gridlock-sam-autonomous-vehicles-safety\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nyc.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/08\/waymo-testing-driverless-cars-gridlock-sam-autonomous-vehicles-safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more and more cities<\/a> are discussing how to put shared autonomous vehicles in their proper place, how to mitigate the impact they\u2019re having on local transportation goals, and how to avoid amplifying some of the worst impacts of old-school car dependency.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/14\/what-if-all-cars-were-autonomous-electric-and-free\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2026\/04\/14\/what-if-all-cars-were-autonomous-electric-and-free\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2025\/11\/10\/the-false-trolley-problem-at-the-heart-of-the-autonomous-vehicle-debate\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2025\/11\/10\/the-false-trolley-problem-at-the-heart-of-the-autonomous-vehicle-debate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exploring<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/05\/study-academics-agree-avs-will-super-charge-vmt-driving-car-dependence-autonomous-vehicles-waymo\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2026\/03\/05\/study-academics-agree-avs-will-super-charge-vmt-driving-car-dependence-autonomous-vehicles-waymo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2025\/05\/07\/how-the-private-self-driving-car-might-change-how-we-live\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2025\/05\/07\/how-the-private-self-driving-car-might-change-how-we-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2023\/10\/03\/what-do-livable-streets-look-like-in-an-era-of-driverless-cars\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2023\/10\/03\/what-do-livable-streets-look-like-in-an-era-of-driverless-cars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So today on The Brake, we\u2019re back on the AV topic, talking to Josh Naramore of the National Association of City Transportation Officials, which released a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nacto.org\/publication\/robotaxis-arent-coming-theyre-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0on how cities can meet the robo-taxi revolution on their terms.<\/p>\n<p>If cities do it right, they can do it\u00a0without\u00a0losing momentum on building livable streets for people outside cars, too. Click the player below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>View an unedited transcript of this podcast (with AI typos) <a href=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/u\/o9qICQ8ty1SkJiH7MkdO1tl3OsE?utm_source=copy_url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robo-taxis from companies like Waymo are already rolling onto roads across America, whether or not cities are ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[210563,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-923274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-promoted","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116480406142049828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}