On the evening of Thursday 5 November, I’ll be at the City of Toronto’s Open Data Jam, giving a short talk on how I produced my piece Who Drives Ridehail? If you’re in town, please register at the ...

In the interest of full disclosure: I have no financial relationship with Waymo nor Alphabet. On the evening of 9 October, I was at Lighthaven in Berkeley, sitting in the green room of Progress ...

This is the first part of a two-part series on ridehail drivers and robotaxis. Today’s issue is about who the ridehail drivers are, and how robotaxis will not affect them uniformly. Next week’s will ...

The pattern among these is clear. It’s a Saturday and there’s a special event downtown: a sporting match, music festival, convention, or expo. The poster is complaining about a train that’s too ...

After a much-needed summer hiatus to recharge my batteries, Changing Lanes is back! I am looking forward to bringing you a variety of pieces this fall across a wide array of topics. I had hoped to ...

Since I wrote this, governments around the world have begun to recognize the problem and take action, but not the action I hoped for. The UK Department for Transport found 97 per cent of British ...

Programming note: this is the last new issue of Changing Lanes until after Labour Day. I am taking August off from new content, and will be reposting older content, which many newer subscribers will ...

UPDATE, 29 July 2026: the report’s authors have retracted the safety analysis from their report. See this image from the report’s home page: I approve of this move. Admitting one’s mistakes is a ...

Before we begin: due to circumstances beyond my control, the next Changing Lanes Live with Aurora’s Chief Safety Officer, Nat Beuse, is being postponed till September. I’ll provide more details closer ...

Before we begin with today’s discussion of safety and driving automation, let me note that I’m about to participate in a busy few weeks of real-time conversations on the same subject. How safe is safe ...

Today I’m pleased to offer a guest post by Rhishi Pethe, author of the Jacquard's Loom Substack, on how Waymo and other robotaxi firms are very late to the party of vehicle automation. Rhishi and I ...