Or...they assume that their identified market segment will be assuming that the streets their vehicles will be driving through are going to be extremely unsafe. Reminder to do what you can to own your own imagination. It is your little garden to feed and tend. https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/1198222648465117184

Our inner worlds are contested territory in the struggle for a livable future, just as much as policy, land use, investment and all the rest.

If we don't grapple with and make conscious our own fears we leave ourselves open to manipulation by others for power or profit. ( @reneelertzman for helping me understand that)

If we don't feed our imaginations with a full sensory emotional experience of what a life sustaining civilization might be like then we cede ground to the momentum of the status quo and we will be unprepared as that status quo falters more and more.

What if cats had wings? What if there was school for wizards? How many great stories begin with just a simple proposition and go on from there? We need those propositions, urgently, for the world we want to see.

What if cities fed themselves? What if we spent more on peace than war? What if schools were like libraries where students came looking for what they wanted to learn, rather than the other way around?

What if everyone could vote? What if there were no prisons? What if the most important duty of the citizen was ecological restoration? What if everyone had enough?

Why is an electric vehicle armed as if for war easier to imagine than a city where children can roam safely for miles on bicycles and our grandparents can walk and live with independence and community.

The answer is not a technical one, because we have everything we need already to make such cities but Mr. Musk does not yet have his armored electric truck. Why should his imagination win out over yours?