Electric cars: The death of the internal combustion engine
Anytime you make something cheaper, easier to use, more useful and&#x2F;or more efficient you get an increase in usage.   Autonomous electric cars are all 4, and will lead to a dramatic increase in the number of miles driven.   Some of those miles we can imagine (for instance sending your car on a dead-head journey somewhere for somebody else to use it), but most of the increase will probably be from new usage models that we don&#x27;t expect.<p>There may be a decrease in the number of cars; the increase in car sharing may be higher than the increase in miles, but I doubt it.<p>But congestion?   That&#x27;s going to get a lot worse, it&#x27;s not going to be the utopia that people here seem to expect.