TEASER: Tech Won't Save Transportation with Paris Marx
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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In a new book, Paris Marx argues that Silicon Valley's vision of our transportation future – from autonomous vehicles to flying cars – is a threat to basic notions of community and conviviality. Weaving connections between the early history of the automobile and the development of the personal computer in the 1970s and 1980s, Marx examines how the individualized view of transportation merged with the mythos of Silicon Valley to create a world that's easily distracted by promises that this one cool innovation will finally solve traffic congestion. Paris Marx, the host of the podcast Tech Won't Save Us, joins The War on Cars to discuss their new book.
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| 0:22.0 | Hey there, I'm Doug Gordon, one of the co-host of The War on Cars, and what you are about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode that is exclusively for our Patreon subscribers. It's with journalist and author Paris Marks who has an |
| 0:25.1 | incredible new book out Road to Nowhere what Silicon Valley gets wrong about |
| 0:29.3 | the future of transportation. If you want to hear the whole thing, plus get access to all our ad-free bonus content and get some cool |
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| 0:46.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:47.0 | I actually, there's a great part that you have in the book where you talk about flying cars and |
| 0:54.5 | Uber and their promise of flying cars and you talk about how in a lot of the presentations and |
| 0:59.0 | visualizations for flying cars where they are explicitly talking about how flying cars will end |
| 1:06.0 | traffic congestion as we know it. |
| 1:08.5 | The visualizations actually show a lot of traffic congestion on the ground. And so they are implicitly saying, you, |
| 1:16.4 | rich person, will be able to escape this thing that we say will be eliminated |
| 1:21.2 | by the creation of this thing. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, it's really hilarious when you, well, I guess it's hilarious, but it's also really sad, right? |
| 1:28.0 | That they're able to sell it. |
| 1:29.0 | Yes. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | That they're able to sell it this way when you can very clearly see that that's not going to be the reality of what they deliver. |
| 1:35.7 | So naturally, you know, when we're thinking about the vehicle as this kind of individualized solution, |
| 1:41.9 | as an individual you cannot escape the traffic on the road, right? |
| 1:45.8 | And so that is why, as we've been talking about through this conversation, so many of the |
| 1:50.0 | solutions are focused on traffic. Elon Musk's Boring Company, it's about getting focused on traffic. |
| 1:52.6 | Elon Musk's Boring company, it's about getting out of traffic. |
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