It could be NE New Mexico, past Clayton, or Nevada, or Eastern Colorado, around Limon, or Montana, near Crow Agency, or southern Idaho. There is a lot of tall and uncut, and the twitter-pated fool who wrote this article hasn't seen any of it.
What people want is cars that drive themselves.
They don't want to deal with public transportation's "icky" people or restrictive schedule, but they also want to drink their lattes and talk on the phone and not have to watch the road.
I know that I would rather trust a computer than a distracted, drunk, sleepy, bad eyesight, having person.