[dstainer]

May be naive but wouldn't the emergence of automated vehicles push cities to change their design to eliminate the normal case where pedestrians and vehicles share any road at all?

It wouldn't happen overnight, but I would think that ultimately you would want to get pedestrians out of the way to improve efficiency of travel. I dunno

[mousa]

I don't see why automated vehicles would cause this redesign to happen when human drivers haven't.

[zyxley]

If anything, it seems like they would make sharing the road more common, because a reasonably reliable self-driving car would be safer around impromptu crosswalks and the like than many human drivers.