So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.
Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.
This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!
And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h…
It will be beautiful (/s)
Sure, remote work is nice. But there are plenty of reasons to go outside and travel around for other reasons. Holidays, trips, visiting friends, retirement.
I think if the number of travels is nor al big (once or twice a week) it’s not a problem people using cars.
The big problem is when every single person use the car minimum of twice a day, all at roughly the same hours and going to the same places. Plus all the other leisure travel.
Just cutting out work commute would solve a lot of problems and a big chunk of energy consumption and pollution emissions.
Yeah, I live in a pretty car-centric place and I basically go do groceries during a working day in the late morning or early afternoon.
At that time the streets are empty and the stores are calm. If you try to go at any other time, it’s just jams everywhere and all the parking spots are completely filled up