The meme version of this would be: Musk: Mom, can I have national infrastructure on which I can safely and reliably operate my semi autonomous vehicles? Mom:

The meme version of this would be: Musk: Mom, can I have national infrastructure on which I can safely and reliably operate my semi autonomous vehicles? Mom: We have infrastructure at home. The Infrastructure: a rail network with communal seating, infrequent service, and a minimal set of fixed route options. If, through the accidents of human history, we spend the next century repurposing highways as railroads for rubber tired carriages then I suppose that’s a good enough outcome. In the century after that maybe we’ll start to reclaim the highway land back, a la Dr Beeching’s shuttering of post war British railway infrastructure.