I actually had a long discussion about this with an Uber driver the other day. Given that this article predates that discussion, I would imagine he was sourcing a lot of his arguments from this article.<p>My position in this discussion is that yes, infrastructure improvements are necessary, but they&#x27;ll be relatively straight forward in the US, as basically every city in the US was designed to support automobile traffic.<p>Self driving cars are going to have a much tougher row to hoe in Europe and Asia, where city infrastructure predates the automobile by centuries&#x2F;millenia