Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Marx, Paris
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Marx, Paris

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws...
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Author: Paris Marx
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Marx, Paris

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

$71.99 $39.90
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Marx, Paris

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation

$71.99 $39.90
Author: Paris Marx
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all

Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley's vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them 'green'; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous.

As Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won't guarantee road safety. There will not be underground tunnels to eliminate traffic congestion, and micromobility services will not replace car travel any sooner than we will see the arrival of the long-awaited flying car.

In response, Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems that considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people. The book argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we design and live in our future cities. We must create streets that allow for social interaction and conviviality. We need reasons to get out of our cars and to use public means of transit determined by community needs rather than algorithmic control. Such decisions should be guided by the search for quality of life rather than for profit.

Author: Paris Marx
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781839765896

About the Author
Paris Marx is a Canadian technology writer whose work has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, and Tribune, among many others. Paris is also a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland and the host of the critical technology podcast Tech Won't Save Us.
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