> If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed I don't, though. If we're going to propose a sci-fi future state of the world that

> If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed I don't, though. If we're going to propose a sci-fi future state of the world that will take a mind-boggling amount of investment, not to mention a giant leap of faith that we'll ever actually get there, I would prefer to reclaim all the space that's currently devoted to car infrastructure and be able to walk to everything. > practical and safe This isn't even enough; it would need to be cheap and universally accessible as well. I don't want to live in a society where we've agreed that cars are necessary despite a high and growing number of vehicle fatalities per year, and then provide miraculously-effective safety features [0] that only 1% (or 10% or whatever) of people can afford. [0] if about_to_collide() dont();