My dad never graduated college, but he was full of wisdom. Imagine the worst case scenario, he liked to say, then plan around it

Now that the new season of No Parking is upon us, a lot of people have been asking me what episodes of Season 1 they should check out so they know what to expect. Here’s my top five: 1. Everyone, especially my mom...

Several people have emailed me asking why—if the No Parking Podcast is supposed to be about autonomous vehicles—we occasionally have guests from outside the transportation sector. It’s because there are already great podcasts focused on autonomous technology, but there aren’t any great po...

I totally buy that autonomous vehicles will someday make our streets safer. What I don’t buy is that car ownership will completely evaporate, because I’m not convinced a car-free lifestyle works for everyone. So you can imagine my reaction when Kara Swisher, host of Vox Media’s Recode and P...

One of the biggest misconceptions about self-driving cars is that we’re going to wake up one day, and they’re going to be everywhere. No matter how well it works in a lab, it can never scale unless someone builds a successful business around it. From shipping to elevators, railroads, electric...

Everyone talks about safety as it relates to driving, but what does “safe” actually mean? Our perception of safety doesn’t always align with reality. My mom complains about my driving even at a crawl, but she’s absolutely fine sitting in the back while a random cab dr...

Is there any word more overhyped than hacking? I’ve been hearing apocalyptic hacking predictions ever since the “Wargames” movie came out in 1983. That’s the one where the character played by Mathew Broderick accidentally backdoors into WOPR, the U.S. military’s mainframe and almost tri...

A lot of people think traffic is like bad weather: a storm we can avoid if we leave at a different time. But traffic isn’t a force of nature. You are never in traffic, you are the traffic. Traffic is us. Which means we can do something about it, if we let the free market decide how to price our...

So many “experts” have incorrectly predicted so much for so long that my eyes glaze over whenever I hear warnings about “hacking” or dates for nationwide robotaxi deployments. True experts don’t tell us what to think as much as how to interpret what we know, which is why some people ada...