Something I’ve realized is that people have been saying this for a long time. I used to write them off as over the top worries of uninformed people. More rece

Something I’ve realized is that people have been saying this for a long time. I used to write them off as over the top worries of uninformed people. More recently as Elon Musk’s failure to deliver has been made clear, I’ve realized that I was myself taken in by a lot of hype. Now when I go back and look at some of the cyclical content around self driving cars that has been around for years, I realize that a lot of it makes sense. The most damning criticism is that automobile-focused infrastructure sucks, and self driving cars won’t change that. We need to invest in traditional forms of transit. But in a world with cheap money (the last decade) and winner-take-all mentality, we get huge investment in individualized technology like self driving cars instead of better urban design and transport infrastructure.