The status quo is ridiculous, but we already have a better solution, dense cities and mass transit. We should be building trains using decades old tech, not AI bs. Of course I'm just shouting into the void but the dream of self driving cars is incredible over engineering and will take us backwards in the long run on the problem of global warming.
Its much easier to sell the future if you portrait it as "autonomous pods for everyone" instead of "trains everywhere", even though the latter is vastly more efficient, simpler, cheaper and eco-friendly. As usual, convenient ideas fare better than good ideas.
