The most important is that the Cybercab has no steering wheel nor pedals; no human driver can operate it. Musk’s view, articulated several times, is that the future of the car is driverless, and the ...

Update, 2025-07-04: Happy Fourth of July to all who celebrate! CHANGING LANES is only posting new content once a week during the summer months of 2025, but given that we posted something light-hearted ...

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 ...

Imagine an August afternoon in Phoenix at a sleepy traffic intersection, where the light is about to change. Northbound traffic gets a green light, eastbound pedestrians get a DON’T WALK warning. But ...

I drive a 2022 Tesla Model 3. If you’ve never been inside a Tesla, the interior may surprise you. The dashboard is notable because it’s dominated by a giant screen. Or perhaps “dominate” isn’t the ...

One story about why flying is miserable goes like this: consumers wanted cheap fares more than anything else, so airlines gave it to them, good and hard. Another story goes like this: in the last ...

It is February 2025, and today hundreds of people in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, not to mention Beijing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai, will traverse their cities in a car without a ...

I used to believe that fare collection was a barrier to good transit service. The belief was appealing for its counter-intuitiveness; like many people, I’m a sucker for ‘ Slate-pitch’ contrarianism, ...

We would make progress in public transit, I argue, by breaking this cycle. Last time, we considered one solution to the problem, which is to reorganize transit agencies as regulated utilities. Ending ...

Welcome to Off-Ramps! Today I’ll highlight four interesting pieces that I think you will enjoy reading. Please enjoy these on your morning commute, or save them for your weekend. And a quick ...

Last week, I explained why high-speed rail (HSR) is wrong for Canada. It's not just that the Alto proposal is badly structured, though it is. It's that HSR itself is a poor fit for the country. It’s ...