May be naive but wouldn't the emergence of automated vehicles push cities to change their design to eliminate the normal case where pedestrians and vehicles share any road at all?
It wouldn't happen overnight, but I would think that ultimately you would want to get pedestrians out of the way to improve efficiency of travel. I dunno
If anything, it seems like they would make sharing the road more common, because a reasonably reliable self-driving car would be safer around impromptu crosswalks and the like than many human drivers.
It wouldn't happen overnight, but I would think that ultimately you would want to get pedestrians out of the way to improve efficiency of travel. I dunno