This five year prediction seems odd to me. Autonomous vehicles have to navigate in a world that was designed for human driven vehicles. If you were to design an

This five year prediction seems odd to me. Autonomous vehicles have to navigate in a world that was designed for human driven vehicles. If you were to design an autonomous transportation system in the middle of New Mexico from scratch it would almost certainly look nothing like what we have today which is comprised primarily of visual cues designed to be highly noticeable to human eyesight. That’s to say nothing of cars themselves being designed around the assumption of a human driver. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s very difficult to imagine that if AVs take over let’s say over the next 30 years that the end result will still be running on the same infrastructure we rely on today and that if we will still be a society where most people drive most of the time that AVs will really be all that transformative in the first place since they would be filling a sizeable but still relatively small use case- taking a cab around a major city. I can’t tell whether it’s the amazement of seeing a driverless vehicle or the actual utility of it that generates the excitement