“Autonomous cars are coming. That’s inescapable. New York City isn’t merely accepting what’s coming and adapting to it; it is encouraging you, as designers, engineers, innovators, architects and urbanists, to meet the extreme challenges of a large-scale, complex urban machine with even more advanced thinking,” say Blank Space founders Matthew Hoffman and Francesca Giuliani.
12 big ideas for a driverless New York
Proposals: HUB311 (Esther Zipori, Gaurav Sardana, Matthew Casaverde, Yashil Mudaliar), Urban Currents (Lauren Whitehurst, Udo Greinacher), 17CP (IBI Group), HAAS Alert, Carmera, Transpod (Mike Natanzon), AuDIS (Gautam Chaitanya, Thijs Schippers, Gautham Varma), The Conscious New York City Bus (Stephen Thomas, Ben Brown, Rut Neiconi, Stephanie Skuzenski), Park Share (Rodolphe el-Khoury, Christopher Chung, Lorena Knezevic), Parc Office, Loop NYC (EDG), Digital Rails (Questto|Nó)
Promoted by: Blank Space with the NYC Mayor’s Office, New Lab, Fast Company, and AIA New York
Year: 2017