The thing that gets me with the whole conversation is the attitude that because humans have been doing it wrong, that a planned system to replace it is somehow inevitable.
@HMSGoose I understand completely that design of infrastructure in cities can make self driving cars a reality faster. I live in the US west though. We have vast areas of freeway where we should probably have trains instead, but that is the infrastructure that exists. We also have vast areas where any city dweller would make the statement that the land was “unpopulated”. I’m not sure how you design the infrastructure around those areas to make people feel driving is a nuisance and I also don’t see any major effort going on to create alternative transportation in those areas.
I suppose it might work if not driving your own car could be made trendy. Sort of in the way people have been convinced they “need” an SUV because they have 1.5 kids and it snows sometimes.
