re: Average car costs $31K, depreciates 15% every year, sits idle 95% of the time

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They will be more prevalent in urban areas but it still doesn't change the fact that the demand for car use peaks wildly during commuting hours.

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On Monday, the director of Google's self-driving car program, Chris Urmson, wrote an article for Medium detailing the program's statistics, saying that Google's fleet of more than 20 self-driving cars have driven more than 1 million miles and are currently averaging 10,000 self-driven miles each week. Throughout the six years that the program has been testing cars on public roadways, Urmson said, Google's cars had been in 11 minor accidents involving “light damage, no injuries.” That number included incidents when a certified driver was operating a self-driving car in manual mode, as well. “[N]ot once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident,” Urmson wrote. He continued:

Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there’s little the driver in front can do to avoid getting hit; we’ve been hit from behind seven times, mainly at traffic lights but also on the freeway. We’ve also been side-swiped a couple of times and hit by a car rolling through a stop sign. And as you might expect, we see more accidents per mile driven on city streets than on freeways; we were hit 8 times in many fewer miles of city driving. All the crazy experiences we’ve had on the road have been really valuable for our project. We have a detailed review process and try to learn something from each incident, even if it hasn’t been our fault.

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The argument can be made that the "40 hour work week" (who does that anyways) is becoming obsolete pretty rapidly.

So many jobs with people putting their butts in seats at offices that really don't need to be there, less hours to get the job done, telecommuting, automation, etc.

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