Deep Dive Getting started with smart cities As robots make their way to city streets congestion pricing to alleviate traffic, the city banning all government agencies from using 25 and airspace, it’s critical that businesses of Buffalo has eliminated minimum parking facial recognition technology. While this was in collaborate with public leadership to requirements for new commercial and residential response to resident concerns about surveillance ensure a safe and welcome transition. projects, and several other cities have reduced and privacy, it could also impede the city’s or eliminated cars in their urban centers.22,23,24 ability to integrate cutting-edge technology that New technologies have always shaped the relies on computer vision, like optimizing traffic development of cities. When automobiles Today, this relationship is once again taking flow. On the other end of the spectrum, electric eliminated horse-and-carriage transportation, center stage. As robotic capabilities grow and scooter-sharing startups Bird, Lime and Spin they transformed the look and feel of urban more businesses want to use them in the open launched in San Francisco in 2018, distributing environments. Highways were constructed, world, companies are finding that introducing their scooters across the city. Initially, the suburbs got bigger and more space was new devices and technology to the cityscape devices were embraced by residents. But not dedicated to parking. But cities also shape is anything but a smooth transition. long after the launch, the city banned all electric the development and use of technology. scooter-sharing companies, citing clashes with Dealing with the consequences of having San Francisco perfectly demonstrates why. pedestrians, illegal scooter-riding on sidewalks too many cars, New York City is adopting In 2019, the city took a preemptive step, and hazardous parking.26