Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving

A Smart Growth Network Webinar

Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 1:00pm EST
Webinars

Recorded December 9, 2021

The vision of a future with driverless cars has caught the public’s attention but may be distracting us from investing in better ways to get around that we can implement now.

Peter Norton, author of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving and historian of technology at of the University of Virginia, joined Smart Growth Online to outline how innovations in urban mobility are made by providing travelers with choices, and how investments in proven and humane mobility choices improve people’s lives and the communities they live in.

Participants

Peter Norton

Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He has authored many articles, book chapters, and the book Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.