> I wouldn't be surprised to see an almost-entirely-self-driving car service in certain areas in the nearish future. As long as it's 100% safe and only requires assistance rarely, it makes sense to start building out the infrastructure sooner rather than later.

That's a huge if and it's not clear we're even close.

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/05/11/a-car-safety-myths-...

https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/09/a-v-safety-2018-upd...