As mentioned in a previous posts, overly sensational titles bug me. That's exactly what this article has, and that's what drew my attention to it. "You won't need a driver's license by 2040." I was half-expecting to read an article about microchipping people or something else to render the license obsolete as a means of providing identification, but... yeah. I was off on that guess, but the resulting article ended up being far more interesting.
The focus of this article is on the idea of self-driving cars and how they're finally starting to become a realistic technological possibility. The most interesting idea that it considered, which had never occurred to me, was the idea of how this could reduce traffic. If we could convert to driverless cars, suddenly the entire idea of an asshole driver disappears. Instead of having to determine the most efficient route to a location given traffic, you can have your car controlled by a centralized hub that could route traffic to be much more evenly distributed than usual.
While the idea of taking one's own hands off the wheel may be unnerving, I think that the possible impact this could have on transportation would be completely worth it.
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