Is Cutting Off Robotaxis Good Urbanism?

When technology messes with the social contract

I saw this social media post from Andrew Miller, promoting one of his recent articles, and thought it was a very interesting question:

Someone said in the comments, I think, that the possibility of being run over keeps pedestrians behaving, which is one of those things that’s sort of true and insane. The penalty for jaywalking should not be extrajudicial execution, b…