Let's create visuals of the impact of driverless car technology on the city of Los Angeles! (Driverless City Project)

###Visuals of potential impact of driverless tech in L.A.

Let's get the ball rolling on some Driverless City content by working together on creating some visuals:

1. Pictures: Post a picture of Los Angeles that is a good candidate for photoshopping that would show the changes caused by driverless cars. It could be an intersection or parking garage or even a broad panorama or even a famous view of a landmark. Anything you think would showcase the changes if we photoshopped new features into the image.

2. Include a description of the changes that should be photoshopped into the picture and why you think this would be caused by driverless technology. Other people can chime in below your comment with their own ideas for the picture.

3. If you have photoshop skills, please help everyone get these done!

4. Infographics: Submit other ideas for visuals sch as infographics we could create. (e.g. here is a graphic of space dedicated to parking in Detroit that would all become freed up land for infill development because people would no longer need to park their cars, we could make one for part of L.A.)

5. If anyone has any other good ideas for visuals, or in general, please comment.

NOTE: We are assuming that the driverless tech is completely adopted, so the fleet benefits of the tech will be in effect!

###Background

r/Driverless was originally created to serve as a place for working on the Driverless City project to imagine and exhibit the potential effects of fully and completely adopting driverless technology in a major American city (original proposal). The project stalled as I got into an unproductive dispute with the mods of r/selfdriving cars and later took a long break from our work. We had finished discussing the parameters of our project and were in the process of breaking into small content groups when we stopped (see here). We had chosen NYC as our city. I have since mended my relationship with the r/selfdrivingcars mods and we can hopefully start posting in that larger community.

###Restarting I want to restart the project and I hope that there are still some users who are enthusiastic about the idea. There are some changes we should make to salvage our progress and move forward effectively.

Changes:

• Switch starting city to Los Angeles
• Consolidate the broad scale into a much smaller and easier goal and we can do more cities after we finish our first one. It might be more fun to do smaller projects for multiple cities instead of working so hard on just one
• Instead of small groups working simultaneously on different content, we will work together as one large group on each of the sequential stages

I envision this project ending with 1-2 pages of written content and lots of good visuals -- basically what you would find as an interesting exposé in a magazine. Creative and fun but nothing too daunting.

###Next Steps

After we have created some great visuals we can get into a write up of other effects and dig into deeper information like economic stats, etc.