Yeah, it would make Robert Moses’s and Frank Lloyd Wrong’s ideas about car based sprawlfests finally viable. What’s the point of dense cities, transit, or even walking when a self-driving sensory-deprivation isolation-box will take you from door to door while you get fatter?

Fossil fuel non-use is best achieved by electric cars (for short distances) and rail for medium distances. A lot easier to power a vehicle over longer distances if you don’t need batteries.

Actually, electric rail + autonomous or semi-autonomous electric cars available for rent ubiquitously would be ideal. But Americans won’t go for it as long as gas prices are cheap. So we’ll end up with self-driving fossil-fool cars burning more energy since people will find it convenient to use them more.

AMERICA! YEAH!

We should be concentrating on hypergrids to move solar energy around the globe (sun always shines somewhere), not on the latest fart app or better ways to burn more fossil fool. But that’s long-range thinking, and there’s no easy money in that.

In a way, it’s a shame that the UN is not more powerful and that we can’t have world government implementing giant projects of that type for the benefit of all humanity.