{"id":1926,"date":"2018-03-22T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeaftercarbon.net\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2018-03-22T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:08:27","slug":"making-modern-city-first-auto-fatality-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/2018\/03\/making-modern-city-first-auto-fatality-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Modern City: First Auto Fatality in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

A hallmark in the development of the modern city was the way that cities turned the use of public streets over to cars–a trend that is only beginning to be reversed in the world’s most innovative cities.<\/p>\n

In wake of the news of an autonomous vehicle killing a pedestrian for the first time–in Tempe, Arizona–I recalled the story of the first person killed by a car in the U.S. more than a century earlier.<\/p>\n

Henry H. Bliss,<\/a> a realtor in New York City, had just gotten off a streetcar in the evening and was at the intersection of 74th Street and Central Park West (just a few blocks from where John Lennon was shot and killed). He was struck by an electric-powered taxi (!) on September 13, 1899, and died at a hospital. The driver was arrested and acquitted of manslaughter because he had not been negligent. (Can an AV be “negligent”?)<\/p>\n

\"\"A century later, the city placed a plaque at site of the killing — “to promote safety on our streets and highways.” It’s a mile-and-a-half from Times Square,<\/a>\u00a0where the city has banned cars since 2009.<\/p>\n

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A hallmark in the development of the modern city was the way that cities turned the use of public streets over to cars–a trend that is only beginning to be reversed in the world’s most innovative cities. In wake of the news of an autonomous vehicle killing a pedestrian for the first time–in Tempe, Arizona–I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern-city-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}