FSU “policy pub” chat surveys a future with robot cars

Self-driving cars promise to reshape the country into a more urban, but more humane, place. But we need to make sure the technology serves human needs, rather than adjust ourselves to technology’s demands. That was the word Tuesday evening from Tim Chapin, a professor of urban and regional planning and interim dean of the College of Social Sciences at Florida State University. “It’s happening, and it’s happening very quickly. Your grandkids and great-grandkids are going to grow up in a…