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She was on a median and walked out into lane. They are saying it was her fault, but aren't you supposed to stop for someone standing in a median waiting to cross? It was 10 pm at night, probably not that much traffic so seems like it would be easy to avoid cars if need be. No way a pedestrian in Pho...

Also I had heard rumors about other developers eyeing up the corner of Cleveland and University, not sure if AET purchase of Rihm put a stop to that. I wouldn't expect anything more than truck storage and maintenance for the former Rihm site. Yes, looks like American Engineering owns Rihm property ...

I was guessing someone tried to cross between parked cars, but it does not appear there was any street parking in that area. Very, very large swath of pavement at the stated intersection of North Mill and East Curry in Tempe. Perhaps this really says more about road design than autonomous vehicles?...

Most neighborhoods lack all-seaso public community gathering places , a few have a community center or a senior center, maybe some way to have park facilities operate as both amenity to park in good waether and free community center , meeting place in off season?

I saw some of those restaurants in parks in Amsterdam - they were still in fairly big parks - to me it felt like they were restaurants with really cool front yards, rather than a park feature. And man do the outer areas of Amsterdam have a lot of green space that isn't very actively used beyond peop...

and Minnehaha park and Como park are whole different animal compared to smaller parks that tend to service a neighborhood rather than act as a huge draw from the area, so big restaurant, pavilions make sense there. I don't think Loring will ever be that type of draw - it is tweener in size and how m...

food truck or pop-up shelters for shops, fair food seem like a good way to try something out - and to deal with seasonal issues.

I don't think the food has to be complicated to help the park, just some healthy snack food, ice cream that people know will be there if they go...

MN DOT also want to use freeway lid real estate as funding source

Hmmm, individual owners renting out their autonomous cars via app likely will be a thing, hadn't thought about it much, but pretty sure that a fleet owner could provide lots advantages over individual owner making their car available when they don't need it. Google has dropped idea of making their o...

That is going to be a very nice place to be a senior -, across the street from a grocery store, a nearby a new park, Surly's nearby, light rail...

The technology is not the problem. I don't think it will be ready in the timeframe many have predicted, but it will get there. The much bigger problems are social and political. People will want to own their own vehicles and will be reluctant to let others use them (damage risk, etc.). There's a co...

My biggest concern is autonomous ride hail systems may monopolize a city like, say Comcast does for ISPs. Hm. I guess I'm not sure I see a "natural" reason why that would be the case. Leaving aside that ISPs are sometimes granted municipal monopolies, a big reason that type of business te...

My biggest concern is autonomous ride hail systems may monopolize a city like, say Comcast does for ISPs. Second biggest concern is congestion. There may be less total vehicles but trips will be way up because of cheapness. These people did a study about how people used cars when they could be drive...

I hate to spoil it but autonomous vehicles aren’t going to work. There is sooo much money and focus pouring into autonomous vehicles, they will figure it out. Consider the sensors and computing power needed to make autonomous vehicles work are dropping in price by double digits each year consistent...

Could autonomous vehicles deflate real estate values in 15 years? Seems in less dense cities they will free up lots of parking spaces and also make buildings more affordable because no parking garages, parking lots. That could be a lot of supply on market fairly quickly when autonomous vehicles take...

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What will continued tech advancements in automonous vvehicles mean to development, real estate. If automonous electric vehicles do really succeed and are super cheap to make many people give up on individually owned cars, and drastically reduce need for parking, it seems that medium dense cities lik...

I like a park like Mears park. Not huge but big enough. Some managed naturalness, a respite. Kids like to play. Event friendly. People gather there, young old, rich poor. People take pictures there. People sit there. Walk. Play. Of course Como is also amazing for size and all that it has, but give m...

"As mentioned above, parking (building less of it) has major impacts." As I see what taking out parking does to affordability to new developments in the Twin Cities, its becoming more obvious the huge cost of parking and other car-oriented development has placed on building and land rent c...