While most estimates suggest that it will still take decades before autonomous vehicles will be adopted, manufacturers like Ford and Tesla, alongside tech giants like Google and Uber, are neck-and-neck in the race to bring self-driving cars into the mainstream. Simply put, self-driving cars will be a part of the future, and it’s up to cities to avoid repeating the mistakes of the last automobile age when cars chaotically took over the streets. See here a new proposal for New York City that will use autonomous ride sharing to massively improve the city’s mobility.