Ah yes. But you could bike to work. There just isn't any infrastructure for it (I'm assuming). I suppose that I'm reading this article as if the author thinks that driverless cars are a panacea for our modern lives when in reality it's just another symptom. Just like adding an extra lane to a highway won't decongest traffic, driverless cars won't alleviate our collective commuting headache. In fact, it would only be a continued investment into a troubled land use typology. I say troubled because I think of my family in Georgia, who live in houses literally beside each other, 500 feet away, and still drive to each others place for dinner. They would eat this technology up (among other things).

I mean really, what kind of amazing lifestyle advancement do you think would be achieved by you being able to still sit down and buckle up, still enter the on ramp, and still stop for pedestrians, but all without having to magically pay attention to any of it? It's a double down on an already shitty deal and you can't polish a turd. But the car is supposed to be about freedom, and individuality right? So why does the article espouse the benefit of it being able to operate like a public bus. "A driverless vehicle could theoretically be shared by multiple people". Haven't HOV lanes already been proven to not decrease congestion by any significant amount?

The article is also topped off with statistics about current driving conditions and I have to wonder how realistic it is to assume that all would be better off when a computer is behind the wheel. It says it could reduce the number of vehicles on the road by 90%!? That's laughable. Hey look, a driverless car, I want one! And considering safety, I just think about me, all proud of my sweet new driverless vehicle, being on the road with the antiquated human operated vehicle majority - the most unpredictable and terrifying thing on the road- and thinking "How well could my machine react to the other lane's asleep at the wheel Honda? The reason Google had drivers that trusted their cars was because they were getting paid to. There will never be a perfect system. There will be bugs and malfunctions and because multiple cars are running on the same timing, there might be fewer accidents, but the ones that happen will be bigger.

I sound pretty down of the car here, but I really do love cars a lot. I LOVE driving, when I can. It just sounds like a 3d TV kind of thing to me.