[...[ ]....On the way home from the grocery store a few weeks ago, my girlfriend was complaining about “all this traffic” and how our ice cream might melt before we get it in the freezer. We're part of the problem, I said, thinking to myself how silly it sounds to complain about traffic when we're contributing to the congestion just as much as the next driver
Well first of all, if you weren't so damned cheap, you'd take her out to a bistro for the ice cream. I don't go out in a non air conditioned car when it's 95 degrees out to buy ice cream, and neither should you. You could try the sensible thing, and get your ice cream during off peak hours. Half the melt happens while you're standing in the check out line the same time as the rest of the pack.
But the real question, is if a sane person, who thinks they'd like to retain their autonomy on the road and else where, really needs to listen to some pseudo-intellectual snot bag, whose primary motivation for making said video, is selling books for Amazon written by one of the biggest con artists of all time.
1: I really dislike being referred to as , "a monkey".
2: None of Musk's plans EVER take into consideration population growth, only putting money into his pocket, while complaining how badly the big car companies are, "picking on him", while on his way to the bank. If you read or watch Sci-fi, you'll know where Musk gets all his ideas.
3: The video is propaganda and FUD, brought on by the perceived emotional instability of people today. After all, we, as human drivers, "need to know when the red light is going to turn green, to avoid having a nervous breakdown". Just ask the talking a**hole, er, I mean "talking head", in charge of Audi.
4: Assuming everyone bought a self driving electric car tomorrow, in another maybe 50 years our population will likely double, so we'd need twice as many of them because of population growth. Whether or not electric cars are more efficient, at some point, becomes a moot point, since our resources will be taxed to the breaking point even with much more efficient utilization of energy.
...[ ]...Commuter services would be awesome with self-driving cars, the need to not purchase one will also be very useful in reducing how many are out there.
I'm guessing you haven't priced the monthly parking space in the center of a big city recently. How about a transit pass? Didn't think so. None of these big dreams of "an asphalt utopia", take into account how much they'll be able to extort from you for a ride to work on the, "new improved driver-less highway system".
No, I think it will eliminate all traffic. In fact, if every car were replaced with a self-driving car, there wouldn't be any traffic anywhere, there would be no accidents, and happiness would go up 50% ! Once we eliminate these mistake-prone humans from the road, we'll be on the fast track to evolution.
When I grow up, I want to be a nail biting ninny just like you, who thinks being carted around in a mechanical box because it's "safer", is a hallmark of "evolution".
If you think about it, cattle don't drive themselves to slaughter. Hey, maybe they're, "evolving" too.
And about the whole, "when I grow up thing", I'm already in my late 60's. And as a matter of fact, I've survived our "backwards" human driver highway system since I was 15, with cars, trucks, and on a motorcycle.