I would have probably given more weight to this piece by Mr. Slater and Mr. Roth if it didn't, in the middle, diverge from reality to a themed world with unicorns and rainbows everywhere. Self Driving cars, if they make it into the popular realm, will take longer. Especially here in Hawaii. While we may love our technology, we have hamhanded ways of implementing that technology. 
Even if you took the more realistic statement that we'll be jetting around in Jitneys....well why hasn't that happened now?  These are the questions. 
And a final question - so you wanna shut this down and sell it all off, what about economic development and the promotion of the one commodity we have in this state - land. Where does that go. 
Again, these are the questions.