Reflections on Developing AV Policy for Buenos Aires

I have been working as a Research Assistant on the Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative at HKS since January. But that work took on a whole new meaning over the last few weeks, when I and a team of my peers were given a real-world task. As part of the MPP program’s “Spring Policy Exercise,” we were asked to help the City of Buenos Aires prepare for the potential arrival of autonomous vehicles. We had eleven days from being given our topic — reducing competition between autonomous vehicles and transit in Buenos Aires — to delivering our final recommendations. So we had to work quickly! While I came to the team with some relevant issue background, my teammates also had crucial knowledge and skills to contribute, ranging from economic analysis to graphic design to speaking Spanish. That last one was in many ways more important than any prior knowledge about autonomous vehicles, because the ultimate key to delivering useful recommendations was that we understood the local context. And most of that context was not easily available in English. <a href="https://medium.com/@AVPolicyInit/reflections-on-developing-av-policy-for-buenos-aires-116822f2db2e">Learn More</a>