I don't buy the economic arguments made in TFA about lost jobs, taxes, revenue, etc. The money saved by people not having to spend it on automobiles, insurance,

I don't buy the economic arguments made in TFA about lost jobs, taxes, revenue, etc. The money saved by people not having to spend it on automobiles, insurance, and maintenance, would be spent elsewhere. Also, it's not as though parking lots/garages would sit fallow with nothing to fill in the voids. > the technology is beginning to look like handwriting recognition or voice recognition. These technologies get to 95-99 percent accuracy but never turn the corner to perfection. Even OCR software cannot be 100 percent accurate. The cars will have similar software failures, but this kind of failure is life-threatening. This is the salient bit. Cory Doctorow's "Car Wars" is the perfect cautionary tale about the driverless revolution.