What I consistently find is that advocates for self-driving cars are enamored with the technology, not the way it will be used or the impact it will have on cities. For them, the self-driving car is the end, not the means to an end. That should scare anyone who cares about the future of cities and it should remind students of history of the early days of automobile adoption, where centuries of accumulated wisdom on city building and humanity were abandoned in pursuit of a shiny object.
