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Austin Russell, chief executive officer of Luminar Technologies, speaks during a news event at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. For the first time, CES has a theme: how technology is addressing the world’s biggest challenges. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg

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San Francisco is the most prepared city for new transportation technologies like AI , autonomous vehicles , and air taxis , accord to an newurban mobility set indexreleased Tuesday .

The index , created by the Oliver Wyman Forum and the University of California , Berkeley , evaluate 70 world metropolis on a mountain range of factors such as walkability , air quality , EV possession and charge infrastructure , ploughshare of walker , public transit access , and cycling base . Overall , San Francisco took the top spot follow by Paris , Singapore , Munich , and Amsterdam .

The rankings change when engineering forwardness was factor out in . This twelvemonth , the index included a newtechnology adoption hoagie indexthat assessed how fain urban center are for young technologies like sovereign vehicle . San Francisco , which is home to numerous self-directed vehicle company and where Waymo operates a commercial-grade robotaxi religious service , took the top spot . Los Angeles , Shanghai , Beijing , and Seoul attack out the top five technical school - ready cities index .

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