--- title: Autos: How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock description: How driverless cars can end parking gridlock, outsourcing textile manufacturing to the US, racial disparity in school discipline, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-07T16:01:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:07.817Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock og:description: These are the best ideas of the day og:url: https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock twitter:description: These are the best ideas of the day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 7, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 7, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**The search for parking gridlocks cities. Enter the driverless car.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/driverless-cars-robot-cabs-parking-traffic/400526/) By Peter Wayner in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Privilege at the principal’s office: White kids get medicated, black kids get suspended.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/08/white-kids-get-meds-black-kids-get-suspended.html) By Jack Holmes in the Science of Us **3\.** [**Chinese textile manufacturers found a cheap new place for outsourcing: the U.S.**](http://qz.com/470358/chinese-textile-manufacturers-found-a-cheap-new-place-for-outsourcing-the-us/) By Jenni Avins in Quartz **4\.** [**Here’s what tech firms should do on college campuses to boost diversity.**](http://recode.net/2015/07/28/to-increase-diversity-tech-firms-must-first-rethink-their-strategy-on-campus/) By Tony Luckett in Re/code **5\.** [**Find out how to save poor kids from the summer vacation brain drain.**](http://www.vox.com/2014/7/13/5891583/summer-slide-achievement-gap-vacation) By Libby Nelson in Vox  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/"},"headline":"How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock","datePublished":"2015-08-07T16:01:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:07.817Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/","keywords":["Innovation","Jobs","China","parking","driverless cars","summer vacation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3988674/driverless-cars-parking/","name":"How Driverless Cars Will End Parking Gridlock"}}]}] ```