Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?
A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network — and how to fix them — with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.
By
Kea Wilson
7:00 PM CST on January 26, 2021
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