Pardon my cynicism but LADOT is the organization that runs buses without keeping the drivers informed that their routes have been closed due to parades. Raise your hand if you've ever been on a bus where the direction chosen was selected through passenger vote? Anyone? Anyone? Okay, just me. Twice. The first time a charter Amtrak driver who got lost in Vancouver after our train got blocked by BNSF. The second an LADOT driver on his regular route who discovered that oh holy shit Sunset is closed on Halloween, same as it is every year, for a parade. So I'll read this, but at the same time, LA is a city where failed urban planning dreams get their own museum exhibit.
I'm cynical too of this plan's success, but what excites me is that there is a plan. I find the subject of AVs and cities, their interactions and consequences on the urban form incredibly interesting. Hopefully I'll get to do my graduation thesis on that topic. Currently, I think that cities need to start taking the impact and deployment of AVs more seriously and need to start thinking about the long-term effects, the needed investments and restrictions they will need to put in place to keep it from spinning out of control. Just imagine what the Robert Moses of AV's would do to cities. I wonder if we're headed to a Renaissance of car-oriented urban expansions / commutes. (Also lol at that exhibit. Only in LA...)