Neil Sipe

Neil Sipe is currently an Honorary Professor in Planning at the University of Queensland. Prior to 2020, he was a Professor of Planning at The University of Queensland from 2014 to 2019. He held previous positions as Head of Urban Planning and Deputy Director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University.

Self Drive
Global tech

A decade after Elon Musk first began hyping self-driving vehicles, here’s why we still don’t have them yet

- March 24, 2023 4 MIN READ

According to predictions made nearly a decade ago, we should be riding around in self-driving vehicles today. It’s now clear the autonomous vehicle revolution was overhyped. Proponents woefully underestimated the technological challenges. It turns out developing a truly driverless vehicle is hard. The other factor driving the hype was the amount of money being invested… Read more »

ride share
Global tech

Ride-share companies post billions in losses annually, so is that the special skill they bring in partnering with public transport?

- February 23, 2023 4 MIN READ

Why do Uber, Lyft, Didi, OLA, and other ride-sharing companies want to partner with public transport agencies? For Uber and Lyft, the reason is simple: their business plans were based on eventually using driverless vehicles to eliminate their main cost, the labour cost of the driver. But human drivers won’t be replaced for some time.… Read more »