>My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every

>My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they'll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic. This is not to say that it's impossible, but US cities barely manage to get the infrastructure upgrades and maintenance they need now - Google et. al. have a lot of money, but I'm not confident they can play bureaucracy well enough to get some of the infrastructure improvements necessary for either large fleets of SDC's. I admit, the idea of replacing all the individually owned cars on the road with a fleet of summonable automobiles is very appealing; it just seems like there are a lot of intermediary steps that are less about technology and money than they are about politics and personal interests.