There seems to be a lot of ignorance among city dwellers. I live in the mountains on a dirt road. Think how much money it will cost to prepare all rural roads for this city dweller utopian wet dream. How are the cars going to put on chains to drive in the ice and snow? How are the cars going to find the road and not say try to take off on a frozen river. This idea is not totally useless but not much more than 50% practical.
We don’t have access to natural gas lines or cable tv in the country but we will have robo cars? LOL.
I don't see why programming an automated car to know how to drive on a dirt road is an insurmountable challenge.
“How are the cars going to put on chains to drive in the ice and snow?”
They won't, but they can ask the human occupant to do it for them.
“How are the cars going to find the road and not say try to take off on a frozen river. This idea is not totally useless but not much more than 50% practical.”
The cars have a built-in map database that is getting better and better every year. It will be easy for the car to understand the difference between a river and a road.