Driverless cars will never be so large scale as to prevent people from getting practice driving.
There is no consumer demand for them. We use cars to move ourselves back and forth...so why move a car around by itself?
In theory driverless cars could essentially eliminate traffic friction and automatically steer around bottlenecks. In highly congested areas, this would be significant. Since we will not control our borders, our children will live to see an America of a billion people. New cities will be built differently but in existing major metro areas, there is no way we can build enough roads to keep pace.
Around here, it takes WW III to add a lane on a major arterial road -- and I'm among those who usually oppose such projects. They severely degrade the neighborhoods whose front yards and tree plats are sacrificed, while making only a marginal and very temporary difference to commuters. In fact, increasing commuter traffic usually has already outpaced the capacity expansion even before the project has been completed. People are going to have to live nearer their jobs, and we're going to have to figure out how to move more cars faster on existing road systems.
There is no consumer demand for them. We use cars to move ourselves back and forth...so why move a car around by itself?
You would’t want a car that dropped you off at your destination, parked itself, then came to you when you whistled for it . . .