I wrote something similar a few years back, but I treated it more as a simple capacity issue: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-solve-t

I wrote something similar a few years back, but I treated it more as a simple capacity issue: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-solve-the-transportation-problem/ https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-so... Even in smaller cities, building transportation infrastructure would greatly reduce congestion, and even reduce the need for future highway expansion. The common excuse is "America isn't built that way" but .. well it was at one time, less than 100 years ago. We use to have more streetcars and passenger rail than EU does now! I didn't address the technical merits, but we've already seen leaked Google training data on here (that was really bad training data because it seemed to use automated/AI to build the training data and put boxes around a lot of things it shouldn't have ... can't find the link to that now), we know about Uber's engineers screwing up royally and killing a cyclist, we know about Tesla's autopilot getting people killed ... which shows even using sensors as safety features may make people less attentive to the road. It's a hard problem space. Personally when I get really old and can't drive anymore, I'd prefer to live some place where I could still walk to cycle or take a train everywhere I really need to. I trust that stuff more than us finding the magic bullet to self-driving AI. And I think what we can get from this article: good self driving AI requires advanced general purpose AI. And once you have that, good luck getting something that intelligent to drive you car. I imagine Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide, "The most advanced robot in the galaxy asked to do the most menial tasks ... fix the engine Marvin. Fly the ship Marvin. Go buy groceries Marvin ... I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."