>>It makes me yearn for an urban future where personal car ownership is a distant memory.
Every time I had to got to SF it wasn't the cars that woke me up at night. It was sirens on the ambulances and fire trucks. Those are not ever going away.
Airplanes, driven by robots or not, are still going to be loud. Trucks, driven by robots or not, are still going to haul their heavy loads (resulting in road noise). Dogs will always bark. Kids will always play there music too loud. Private cars are not the source of every evil.
The difference is that thousands of dogs, kids, and trucks don't pass by my house every morning on their way to work, then again in the evening on their way home.
Every time I had to got to SF it wasn't the cars that woke me up at night. It was sirens on the ambulances and fire trucks. Those are not ever going away.
Airplanes, driven by robots or not, are still going to be loud. Trucks, driven by robots or not, are still going to haul their heavy loads (resulting in road noise). Dogs will always bark. Kids will always play there music too loud. Private cars are not the source of every evil.