For a long time, what separated cities from regions was “distance.” Precisely because travel cost both time and money, people and industry gathered where it was convenient — in the cities. But autonomous driving is about to break down that “wall of distance” at its very foundation.
When mobility becomes safe, affordable, and free, where will we live, where will we work, and how will cities and regions be reconnected? The placement of our living spheres and industries — long bound by distance — will be rewritten under an entirely new equation.
In this session, researchers at the frontier of autonomous driving and AI join practitioners who design the sharing economy and new operating systems for society, to map the “new geography” that autonomous driving will create. Beyond the technology, they reconsider how cities, regions, and the very ways we live and work will change.
