Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are rapidly becoming a reality, with a series of cities in the world currently testing applications. Despite these developments, the existing analyses in the literature concerning the impacts of such developments on urban transportation systems have yielded a body of evidence marked by significant divergence and contradictory conclusions. Such conflicting findings critically hamper the synthesis of a coherent understanding and the formulation of evidence-based strategies, a challenge exacerbated by the potentially multifaceted nature of these impacts. The purpose of the paper is to explore and define the optimal strategies for implementing autonomous vehicle technologies, to predict their effects on anomalies, in the Kuhnian sense, of urban transportation, and to propose a desirable urban vision and a paradigm shift consisting of a decline of car ownership dependence and the rise of shared AVs.

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