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"Urban planners learn early that there can never be enough parking. It's one reason American cities, including Detroit, disfigure themselves with so many ugly concrete parking garages. And it's why historic buildings often fall to wreckers when a surface parking lot appears to offer a more lucrative revenue stream. But it's just possible that the coming of the autonomous self-driving car may break the stranglehold that parking has on cities like Detroit. Most proponents of autonomous vehicles predict we'll need a lot fewer parking spaces in the future because driverless cars will not need to park at all, except at night. Rather, they will roam around during the day, seeking new passengers or running errands instead of sitting empty all day in a lot or deck. Combined with the growing popularity of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, new bike-sharing programs such as Detroit's MoGo service that starts up next month, transit options such as the Qline that begins service in May and the trend toward downtown living, autonomous vehicles could drastically reduce the need for parking lots and decks in the city."

"L'état social et économique de la ville de Détroit a évidemment fait beaucoup fantasmer… Cette ville tellement désertée que les maisons s'y vendent à 1 euro… Dans cet environnement urbain délaissé, le photographe Joshua Lott s'est intéressé à un symbole particulier, celui des automobiles abandonnées, dans une ville qui fut longtemps surnommée la Motor City à l'époque où sa principale activité économique était la construction automobile. Vestiges d'un glorieux passé, ces voitures abandonnées sont un symbole particulier et un memento mori implacable. "

"Most of those cars have yet to arrive - and it is likely to be years before they do. Several carmakers and technology companies have concluded that making autonomous vehicles is going to be harder, slower and costlier than they thought. "We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles," Ford's chief executive, Jim Hackett, said at the Detroit Economic Club in April."

"The company transforms normal cars into temporary self-driving vehicles to improve logistics around the production line ANNA JOHANSSON 2 OCTOBER 2017 Big-name companies have been using Detroit as a testing ground for self-driving vehicles lately. In fact, they're expecting that the first consumer-owned driverless vehicles will hit the market within just a few years. Swedish technology firm, Semcon, wants to use the technology to significantly reduce the number of people who drive in your car. The initiative is called Born to Drive, and it involves a number of high-profile contributors."

"'We take rusty old junk and we put love into it.' The old Motor City has a unique style in bicycles these days: from fat wheels and fake fuel tanks to stretched cycles with powerful sound systems - and even a family-sized BBQ"