Jettison the Jetsons:Sex, Neuroscience and a Better City of the Future

Jeffrey Tumlin

Hyperloop:1867

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Object Thinking

Systems Thinking

Constant #1: The Human Body

WALL-E

Constant #2: The Human Psyche

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What about Autonomous Vehicles?

>30,000 Traffic Deaths per Year

Eliminate 80% Commercial Parking Demand?

Platooning

First/Last Mile

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

George E. P. Box, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (1987)

Induced and Latent Demand

Congestion

WidenRoadway

Faster Driving

More PeopleDrive

Minority Report

AVs work if:• Shared, not owned• Pay congestion fees to use public roadway• Exterior ads restricted• Cruising restricted• Efficiency allows retrofit of cities for increased walking + cycling

• Sprawl controlled

The real City of the Future will focus on

human health andhuman happiness

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It’s not sustainableif it’s not beautiful

Ideas are sexy too

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