OpenThePaths Thursday fast notes

Where RantWoman was all day  #OpenThePaths

OpenThePaths 2025 Conference Guide - Google Docs

RantWoman's brain is flying faster than her fingers so this post is some fast impressions. RantWoman has more to say and some views subject to change.

RantWoman is generally THRILLED that some many bright people are interested in the same issues clogging RantWoman's lived experience.

Interesting to hear how experience with Uber, Lyft and also BikeShare motivated city of Seattle DOT to take initiative about autonomous vehicles. LOTS of pitfalls as different cities have test programs. 

--How will people secure stuff?

--Some companies or cities require a driver / assister.

--Fully autonomous wheelchair securement is hard and it's hard to design a vehicle interior with wheelchair spaces. The one company that attempted to have fully autonomous wheelchair securement, Cruise, is out of business for multiple reasons including sense of Us/Them with respect to regulators. Collaboration will matter for future success.

Statewide sidewalk data:

--Definitely intriguing

--Hope to use machine learning is interesting. RantWoman means to go back through the tape and clean up her thinking in a little more depth. RantWoman for a bunch of reasons does not automatically trust machine learning on principle. BUT RantWoman would be open to experimenting on her own device about her own travel patterns, particularly rpeated travel patterns over time. RantWoman would consider SEPARATELY uploading her experiences to a larger ML system to see what is in common and what is unique to RantWoman or to only a small percentage of others who might share some characteristics when contributing to the larger pool. RantWoman probably needs to understand Machine Learning a little more to wander down this path and try something. RantWoman also wants a minimal coding option where she can collect data and not have to do too much coding.

--Where would RantWoman want AccessMap data? In all trip planners with an option to run different routings through some customizable criteria and recommend routings, possibly including ranking options presented according to pedestrian criteria. For an example narrative starting point, consider RantWoman's walk in the rain on Christmas day post Adventures of RantWoman: Plonkers, Parsnips, and pedestrian nightmare. Oh My

And some great Less is more items from the lunchtime opportunity to visit posters.RantWoman promises alt text and MAYBE some rearrangement soon.

    

Open Streetmap and Open Streetmap pedestrian advisory committee

--Crowd sourcing data collection sounds cool, but Rant Woman wants a cookie for helping populate data.