Road to Nowhere

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

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THE STRUGGLE FOR TRANSPORTATION’S FUTURE, AS TOLD BY THE AWARD-WINNING HOST OF THE TECH WON’T SAVE US PODCAST

Elon Musk and the masters of Silicon Valley want us to believe technology can revolutionize our cities and means of transport. Road to Nowhere exposes the paucity of their vision, a distracting fantasy that will only delay the collective solutions already known to be effective. Technological responses to social problems and the people behind these barren ideas must be challenged if our cities and transportation systems are to serve the public good.

Paris Marx offers a plan for an innovative transportation system to meet the needs of the poor, the marginalized, and the vulnerable — as well as those of everybody else. Road to Nowhere argues that rethinking transport could be the first step in a broader reimagining of our social, economic, and political systems, which ought to be structured around the many, not the few.

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  • The last decade has been a trainwreck for Silicon Valley's dreams of mobility. Paris Marx's invaluable new book explains how and why big tech's utopian transit projects crashed and burned, why these disasters will keep finding funding if they are not opposed, and what the alternative might look like. The path to a better, more equitable future of transit begins with the Road to Nowhere.

    Brian Merchant, author of The One Device
  • A lively summary of the ways Big Tech has distracted us from the urgent task of making our cities work for everyone.

    Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit
  • An astute and engaging critique of Silicon Valley’s visions for transportation, Marx highlights the problems of technology being driven by the needs of capital and crafts a compelling vision of a world where technology is instead used to deliver social good

    Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley