Saw the same thing. Someone give her a million dollars and 3 years...

She's a Wall Street Journal tech columnist.

Not at all to diminish her insight, but for perspective Rainbows End was published in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

Would be curious about earlier visions of self-driving car services.

You know, TechCrunch comments are typically not any better than what I see on YouTube nowadays. But what's scary is many of the commenters are here in the Valley and claim to work in tech.

Ok, maybe not too scary and unexpected if you spend enough time talking to people on CoFoundersLab. But still...