Right, and that is one thing to weight for when choosing the behavior of the system. While the article in question doesn't explicitly say this, I think these s

Right, and that is one thing to weight for when choosing the behavior of the system. While the article in question doesn't explicitly say this, I think these seemingly impractical solutions add to the theoretical toolkit that we can use to shape a road utopia, if society ever agrees on what that would look like. If society does ever agree on a road utopia and then consider it worthwhile to pursue, it will be valuable to have these ideas laid out. Perhaps they are useless today, but they motivate this idea. If they weren't proposed then the possibility of a future road utopia is entirely impossible.