If you build it, they will come has been a popular refrain among entrepreneurs ever since the hero in Universal Pictures’ 1989 film, “Field of Dreams” built a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield. But in the real world of business, customers only show up at the intersection o...

I love “The Matrix” and the first two “Terminator” films as much as any science fiction fan, but I’ve always wondered why there are so few great movies about good robots. T2 doesn’t count, because the T101 is only there to fight the T1000. The “Star Wars” movies don’t cou...

Everyone loves listening to music in cars, and ever since self-driving cars moved from fantasy to reality, there’s been speculation about how that musical experience might get even better. Some have suggested turning autonomous vehicle interiors into living rooms or movie t...

As a driving enthusiast, people often ask me why I support the idea of autonomous vehicles. I’d like to say it’s because I hate traffic and parking is expensive, but both of those pale before the obvious one, which is safety. Even if traffic weren’t a factor and parking was ubiquitous and f...

Many public schools lack basic computer science classes, which means a lot of talented kids never get a chance to pick up the tools they need—and America’s tech sector suffers. My co-host, Bryan Salesky, went to one of those schools and had to teach himself technology the hard way. Luc...

When Chris Anderson set out to build his first drone from a Lego Mindstorms kit at home with his kids, he never imagined it would lead to the creation of 3DRobotics, one of North America’s most prominent drone companies. On this episode of No Parking, the former WIRED Magazine editor-in-...

One of the biggest misconceptions about autonomous vehicles is that the people building them hate driving. But if you want to deploy vehicles for maximum reliability in all conditions, you need people who know how to build and maintain them. No one knows more than the mechanics behind the cars ru...

The only thing that drives me crazier than traffic are “experts” trying to sell me a fantastical solution. If you really want to know how to keep cities moving and people happy, you need to talk to someone who’s led transportation departments for not one but two of America’s largest citie...

When Black Panther came out in 2018 to rave reviews, city planners in the audience noticed something else: the most fascinating depiction of a municipal transportation system since “Minority Report.” Unlike th...