Personally other than "Going to Home Depot" I would rather have good public transit for all of these. In fact my city has decent (and rapidly improving) transit

Personally other than "Going to Home Depot" I would rather have good public transit for all of these. In fact my city has decent (and rapidly improving) transit and I find the experience better than sitting in traffic, even if I'm not driving (and don't need to focus on the road). Taxis (autonomous or otherwise) mitigate a lot of problems with cars but traffic is still a huge issue. Cars just aren't an efficient way to move people. In rural areas where space is cheap and everything is spread out anyways than it makes sense. But in the city where space is valuable high-capacity transit makes the most sense. The space taken up by cars (even if no parking is needed) is just not worth it. Especially when you tack on noise, pollution and the danger to pedestrians.