That is going to be an infuriating full circle of the privileged taking away automated means of public transportation to make way for “car culture” and the much vaunted “independence” that represented, essentially hogging the public streets for their car culture, to then saying we can’t be independent drivers anymore and the only way you can responsibly use these highways and byways is in one of a certain selection of approved, expensive, self-driving cars 
As an example: A hundred years ago, one could conveniently get from my little city to Portland ME in 45 minutes on street cars. “They” ripped up all that infrastructure and scrapped the street cars and now options are very limited and not at all conducive to commuting via public transit.
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