Yep, this is definitely the future. In major cities, self-driving cars will be available in fleets to summon on-demand Uber-style at $.50/mile or less (which is

Yep, this is definitely the future. In major cities, self-driving cars will be available in fleets to summon on-demand Uber-style at $.50/mile or less (which is similar to the total cost of ownership of an average relatively new vehicle in the city). The value proposition will be so strong that many urban dwellers will no longer need to own cars at all. Roads will be more efficient and safer; parking lots will be smaller and fewer in number. In sparser areas of the country driverless cars will have less of an effect, but those are also the areas where parkings lots and roads constitute a much smaller percentage of surface area.