Autonomous Transportation and the Future of Business Travel
Skift Take
Autonomy will have implications for short haul air travel. The question is when.
On a panel in Austin at SXSW last year, I was joined by Stanford University’s Reilly Brennan, who runs their automotive program, Revs, as well as Seleta Reynolds of the Los Angeles department of transportation to talk about autonomous vehicles and their implications for urban planning.
One thread that was teased out but not explored in depth as we focused on cities, is what autonomy will mean for short-haul business travel. What does a world look like where, instead of going to the airport two hours early, taking hour flight, and then a commute into a city center, one just gets in a vehicle and works — or sleeps — en route to the destinat
