You might be wrong even for a planned city: individual cars are convenient, fast and safer than public transport (picture women and minorities who get harassed-

You might be wrong even for a planned city: individual cars are convenient, fast and safer than public transport (picture women and minorities who get harassed--human drivers are going away fast and people's bigotry are not). Experts reckon self-driving traffic will reduce cars on the road by an order of magnitude, so that we'll only need 5% of current cars to provide pinpoint, individual and mostly immediate service to everyone. 30% of all traffic is caused by parking alone. It really seems like small electric two-seater cars (whatever form they take) are the future. That most cities are already prepared in terms of roads is icing on the cake. That said, if it happens, these self-driving cars should BECOME public transport, a common good, of course. Not some corporation's private automaton army of money-printing cars, even though Uber really is helping speed up the whole transition. I think Europe and perhaps Latin America will have better luck escaping Uber's monopoly claws and bringing service into the commons.