&gt; What are we left with? Not much really. In terms of time savings and safety, autonomous vehicles will not be a disruptive innovation to urban transport systems<p>Strongly disagree with the professor here. I&#x27;m not saying they will fix all our problems, and wont bring some new ones in addition, but to insinuate that driverless cars will not have a disruptive impact on safety and time saving leads me to question the authors understanding of autonomous vehicles.<p>Actually there are several other &quot;facts&quot; that author states that I disagree with, or that are separate from autonomous vehicles.<p>I think this stuff is certainly important to evaluate and weigh the pros and cons, and I agree its not going to be a silver bullet for all our problems, but this reads like a wonk who doesn&#x27;t believe the internet will ever go anywhere.<p>In addition, who knows what additional technological or social changes take place that would impact how, when and why we travel.<p>TL;DR: author&#x27;s magic 8-ball needs another shake.