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What are they going to do with the 24,000 Volvo cars they ordered in November? And Uber's GM in Spain said last week that the program will contunue: https://citiesofthefuture.eu/u...

True, and that could mean trouble for other gig-economy business such as Deliveroo and, most importantly Airbnb: https://citiesofthefuture.eu/t...

And of collisions between drivers and pedestrians, 64 percent were the driver’s fault.

Given what I've seen of how pedestrians acted when I worked in SF years ago, I'm shocked that that number isn't reversed towards pedestrians being more at fault. They routinely waited OUT IN THE STREET for the light to change, rather than stay two steps back on the nice, safe sidewalk. It was truly the most bizarre pedestrian behavior I have seen in a city. They also would start crossing a busy six lane main road when there was no chance for them to make it across before the light changed. Many times I would be in the far right lane, and couldn't see pedestrians meandering across because of large trucks to my left. Light turns green, I start to go, and... whoops! Almost hit a clueless pedestrian.

There is a Town in Spain doing just that, with Twitter: 2,200-year-old Andalusian town runs on Twitter