Cars shouldn't be allowed inside cities at all, for obvious reasons (air polution, noise polution, overall well-being of all citizens). And secondly internal c

Cars shouldn't be allowed inside cities at all, for obvious reasons (air polution, noise polution, overall well-being of all citizens). And secondly internal combustion engine is an inventian appropriate for 20th century, certainly not for the present age (because of its 20-25% efficiency, and when you take into account that that's engine efficiency, and the power output is actually used to accelerate several tons of metal, actual cargo is insignificant in most cases, you end up with 2-3% efficiency). This is really one proof of the incredible human stupidity. I would like to see most European cities in the following two decades, as having a traffic made up of bikes and few smaller electric cars. On the topic of driverless cars, it is solving the wrong problem. The advantage most of you mention is more time available for people. That's not really true in my view, because: when I'm in a car, I feel physical distress, some kind of motion sickness, and a great portion of the population has similar symptomes. This greatly reduces the amount of activities one can perform in a car. And secondly, because we're talking about replacing cities (distances < 30km), the best solution is to replace cars with bikes, and you get the additional exercise that's missing from most people's lives, and you don't need to waste time in gyms, which are not as healthy, and don't result in as much endorphines/happiness (I don't have studies to cite for this). And getting back to the topic of driverless cars. As a cyclist I would definitely feel safer around automated cars (but that's mostly because the place where I live is also inhabitated by many uncivilized drivers with no regard for other traffic participants, and no respect for the law, (Eastern Europe)). But then, the add efficiency of automated cars is quickly lost when you add cyclists and other vehicles to the equation. The bottomline : wrong problem, very few benefits, except in places like Eastern Europe, where it can't/won't be implemented because of social and economical reasons.