But it's not about us deciding what is good for these people.

How about bringing those people to the table where the decisions are being made?

Thank you. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks.

And before we get into this week's episode, I wanted to let you know about something exciting that's happening for me in less than two weeks now.

My first book, Road to Nowhere, What Silicon Valley

Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation will be released in North America and Europe on

July 5th by Verso Books. The book is the culmination of many years of writing about

transportation and technology, as well as researching that topic during my master's degree at McGill University

in Montreal. And it does several things. It digs into these visions that we've been presented

for the future of transportation by the tech industry over the past decade or so, whether it's

ride-hailing services or autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility companies, and even electric vehicles, because

Tesla has been really involved in that part of the auto market. I look at the promises that

were made about all of these kind of tech solutions to transportation and how they really

failed to follow through on what they were promising and the real issues that they present for

creating a

transportation system that better serves everybody, in particular, the people who really need

better mobility in our cities and even beyond them. But the book also goes beyond that. It looks

at the histories of automobility and of the tech industry itself, particularly in the

United States, to illustrate how they were shaped by capital and the need to turn a profit at some

point and how that affected the kind of transportation system and the kind of technologies that we

have actually received from industry as a result because

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