ai-supremacy.com

Visions of AI: An Inflection Point in Robotaxis in 2027

At a time when robotics is being hyped but lacks real world demand, the space economy is being built by a NASA with big promises, and U.S. datacenters and manufacturing is being pushed (even on other parts of the world and with trade tariff diplomacy) - the advent of the American robotaxi is being a little, overshadowed. But it's actually a big deal.

noahpinion.blog

The death of Market Street

Cars were subtracted, but pedestrians weren't added. The direct cost of this policy is pretty obvious. When people can't park in a parking garage on Market, and when Uber and Lyft can't pick people up and drop people off on the street, it makes businesses on the street less attractive to visit.

longreads.com

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent

This was the Wild West of commercial aviation, after planes had been proven but when the Jet Age was still new and exciting.

notboring.co

Expanding the Radius of Daily Life

It is an anthropological invariant rooted in territorial behavior that when humans access a faster mode of transportation, they use it to travel further instead of traveling less. We are born to spread. We like to commute about 30 minutes each way, or about an hour a day. Give us a faster vehicle, and we don't pocket all the time we save. We spend it to reach more of the map.