The only thing that's going to change things is the freedom of being able to travel directly from point A to point B without having to go to other points in bet

The only thing that's going to change things is the freedom of being able to travel directly from point A to point B without having to go to other points in between. Right your at your house "A" and you need to go your job "B", but to take public transportation you have to go to bus stop "C" and take it to bus stop "D", and then on to "B" (and that's best case scenario). Where I'm from (Long Island, NY) most of the public transport goes either east to west or north to south, with more going east to west (including trains). So if you want to go North East, forget about it. The only way to solve this is through more automation - not just self driving automation, but even just the automation of a matching system. Sometimes I wonder if someone like Uber came out with an "Uber-Commute" service, if it would take off. You could pay a monthly fee, so you pay even when you don't use it. We could have self-driving now, if we started with the infrastructure for it, but unfortunately that's not easy. At the very least we could have "self driving" lanes everywhere for single person "pod" vehicles - that would be neat.