CATES works on effective & efficient mobility

Center for Advanced Transportation & Energy Solutions = non-profit consultancy focused on electric, connected, automated vehicles for sustainable mobility

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Click on the link below to preview my team's innovative backcasting plan to make future road mobility safer, less congested, and more supportive of copresence every society needs. In a new book, The End of Driving: Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility.

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Extensive free preview of my co-authored End of Driving 2nd edition textbook is at https://t.co/0EjOJYNJza

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Check out "Ridesharing Institute Conversation tomorrow 22 April 2026: Leveraging the Fuel Crisis" Noon in North American Pacific Time Zone https://t.co/RIW6B9nKPU @eventbritehelp

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Report: "Waymo's ridership [in driverless robotaxis] is growing faster than [human driven] Uber's in the Phoenix region [USA's leading Waymo market] in terms of percentage growth.., although Uber still holds a significantly larger total volume of rides."
https://t.co/dsn6hOhHzC

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Read about the rise of electric robotaxis in the 2nd edition textbook on better deployment futures for automated cars by @BernGrush , @JN_Seattle, and @AndrewMillerYYZ with a Foreword by @SusanShaheen1.

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Second edition of The End of Driving textbook (Elsevier 2025) by @BernGrush @EndOfDriving (that's me) @AndrewMillerYYZ is now published. Subtitle is "Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility."
Overview and best price to purchase here: https://t.co/0iykLDAg2s

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Nice review essay: "EVs: Looking back on 25 years of technology" https://t.co/4RAxaCTQl6

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Parents need to train their children to understand the nasty reality you describe, and to behave when crossing streets in a self-protective, highly aware stance. Same when walking in car parking lots. Oh, and walking on ped-bike paths shared with fast, quiet, electric bikes.

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

If enough people in a country were to agree that reducing carbon emissions into the global air shed is critically important, would a sinking cap on emissions from motor vehicle fleets be reasonable public policy? Join the global discussion July 23: https://t.co/ZvvcVlaFJC

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Economist author "Antiplanner" declares, "I hope that driverless vehicles will take away people’s jobs in the future. The U.S. faces major labor shortages, and while some people may enjoy driving there are plenty of more productive things people can do with their time."

[John Niles @EndOfDriving]

America's Antiplanner challenges conventional wisdom in a new essay, "Do Driverless Cars Hallucinate Electric Sheep?" https://t.co/HocpjrJ583
"Replacing human drivers with machines may cause short-term hardships but in the long run should increase... productivity and wealth."

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Robotaxis will be electric-powered... Robotaxis could be part of subsidized public transit feeder service to rail transit stations ... but that will require public policy action.

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

Second edition of The End of Driving textbook (Elsevier 2025) now in final preparation by @BernGrush, @EndOfDriving, & @AndrewMillerYYZ.
New subtitle is "Automated Cars, Sharing vs Owning, and the Future of Mobility"
Preview here: https://t.co/ElNP1Kn5Ad

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

News report: "Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions" https://t.co/xIRRwvEciM via @techcrunch

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

New automated driver assistance system (ADAS) feature for easier urban parking in small spaces has been developed for a luxury EV by BYD in China.

[John Niles @EndOfDriving]

This feature supporting easier parking apparently by using differential tire movement raises a question about how much additional tire wear would be generated with frequent use.

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Top-selling car models in 2024 worldwide reported by @zerohedge using data from @StatistaCharts : https://t.co/8x7kNVBHBR

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News report from @ChrisDaniels_TV: "Sound Transit delays new CEO decision amid ethical complaints on [former Board of Directors chairman Dow] Constantine candidacy [for the CEO position]" https://t.co/ycNZlASllC

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

I hope @SierraClubWASt soon notices the @EPA, @FTA_DOT, @SoundRegion, & @pscleanair blindness to @SoundTransit's willful cover up of climate harm from construction & tree-removal in building Seattle's next light rail. EPA's lack of attention shown here: https://t.co/0pa1cCcrZ2

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Interesting newsletter, take a look.

[Media Brief @LegalAnalysis]

The On-Ramp: An Autonomous, Connected, and Electric Mobility Newsletter - December 2024 https://t.co/2uxzRCVQ7L

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Report: "California's first EV-charging roadway planned" https://t.co/DL6ENde1uW -

[U.S. Department of Transportation @USDOT]

NEWS: Since the start of the Biden Administration, the number of publicly available EV chargers has doubled to 192,616!

And we're just getting started. The infrastructure law is helping states fill gaps in the network to ensure a convenient, American-made EV charging network.

[John Niles, Seattle @JN_Seattle]

The August 8 @SeattleTimes op-ed below points to the petition for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue citizens not happy with what they are getting for $6.5 million per day in local transit tax collections by @SoundTransit. Petition by @Smarter_Transit is found at https://t.co/EOGNhjdOXP.

[CATES works on effective & efficient mobility @2025CATES]

Not-yet-finalized West Seattle light rail extension is an example of massive public transit tax spending ($4,000,000,000 for 4 miles of track!) that is not effective and not efficient, with alternatives suppressed in the planning.
Click for postings by @Smarter_Transit .

[Smarter Transit @Smarter_Transit]

Sound Transit's new plans don't make financial sense. Putting light rail into West Seattle for instance. $4 billion for 4 miles that won't create new transit riders or decrease traffic.

So why build it? The financial, enviro and biz costs are enormous. Hit our site for more.

[Smarter Transit @Smarter_Transit]

Big changes for West Seattle. @SoundTransit will demolish this green space (w/ a heron colony) for light rail -- on columns 165 feet tall.

It will create no new riders nor reduce traffic. Go to our website and sign the petition.
#accountability #smartertransit #lightrail