This is the tip of the iceberg. What do you think will happen with self-driving cars on the road, or self driving trucks and other commercial vehicles? Parking

This is the tip of the iceberg. What do you think will happen with self-driving cars on the road, or self driving trucks and other commercial vehicles? Parking lots will be long-gone as people's cars endlessly circle the blocks. The highways near storage depots will be filled with self driving trucks endlessly looping back on to and off of the highway in lieu of having the costs of a paved lot. There will be MORE cars, not less, as the total $$$/mile costs start a race to the bottom. The road's condition will deteriorate as the numbers of cars/minute/foot skyrockets, causing more construction and lane closures. It will be a glorious time for junk car dealers as the cars become as disposable as Abercrombie shirts. I can guarantee that someone with no friends or close family will set their car to circle the block and then die in the middle of their manicure. This car will not be 'valet'd' for and will just circle, drive itself to a recharge station, and then continue to circle until it catches on fire or is blockaded by thieves and left as a 'navigational' hazard for pedestrians. It's windows blown out, a headlight dangling, covered with graffiti, and filled with dusty pine needles and empty beer cans, it continues to circle the nail salon like some Flying Dutchman of the 21st century. That or it's tires blow out and it yelps at the roadside for it's dead owner to put it down. There will HAVE to be a lot of regulations as cars turn into public goods like PG&E or AT&T. Google, Uber and Lyft will conglomerate their businesses into GL&U, and the robber baron nature of capitalism takes over. No, these self driving cars will be scourge as car subscription services become like so many lite beer brands; all offering the same thing, so a race to the bottom for costs ensues. Quality falls down to the question of what a 'car' is legally allowed to be, and we are inundated with ever smaller, ever cheaper, and ever less safe "cars" to the legal minimum. It will be a nightmare for the climate and all of us. Keep your keys close and your state rep's number closer.