between population gains and the popularity of fully self-driving mobility services, we’ll see the total number of vehicle miles grow by 1 trillion. (Half of the 1 trillion it attributes to population growth.) For perspective, U.S. residents drove 3.1 trillion miles in 2014.
KPMG expects this growth to come from trips taken by the very young and very old, who can be immobile only due to their inability to drive. By having access to a self-driving shuttle, a world of opportunity would open up.
— washingtonpost.com
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Mass transit and self driving cars are two different things that are often confused, We need less cars and more places reachable by the energy, economically and space efficient mass transit to make cities livable. Lots of computerized pods roaming around will be safer but will still take up lots of space and road capacity.
All cars are evil and must be eradicated.
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