> The elephant in the room is that personal mobility is going to undergo a complete redesign in the coming decade as vehicles drive for themselves. The way the

> The elephant in the room is that personal mobility is going to undergo a complete redesign in the coming decade as vehicles drive for themselves. The way the argument is going right now, personal mobility won't get redesigned -- it will get eliminated. Faux-urbanists will continue to fight for (and win) at getting cars more-or-less banned in cities. Cars will continue to get better at zero-emissions and self-driving, but that won't stop people from hating them. Attempts at better public transit will be promoted, but nothing nearly as fast/efficient/convenient as cars currently are. I suspect in the coming decades, people simply won't be allowed to move around as much, and folks will succeed in convincing people that this is "better" for them. Personal mobility will be a concept for history books, like privacy.