Evs are in the long run good but make no mistake that the batteries come with an ecological cost during their use and afterlife. Evs, autonomous cars, and ride

Evs are in the long run good but make no mistake that the batteries come with an ecological cost during their use and afterlife. Evs, autonomous cars, and ride sharing are all good but for a major ecological change to happen there has to be a societal one as well. The future with autonomous cars isn't most efficient with everyone having their own car, it's with summonable cars that services own instead of individuals. Much of the benefit of autonomous cars is lost if the vehicles continue to sit unoccupied for the majority of the day. Likely for some time, anything more than a city wide autonomous car network won't be possible as the reliance on networked machines to offload the heavy lifting onto seems too great, much less to get it to poorly connected rural areas. Society needs to be willing to change how it uses cars in order for a major change to happen.