Can you imagine trying to walk around a city with millions of autonomous cars constantly driving around?? Horrible! Like you say, there's the tire wear (and that rubber doesn't just disappear), but also the noise. I can't think of a future I'd like to live in less.

The alternative; an efficient underground metro, trams and buses, safe bike and walking, it would be so peaceful and lovely!

So a fleet of driverless cars constantly driving around a city... How do humans exist outside of a car in this situation, with constant traffic flow? Also, how many cars per citizen, on average? Let's say a city of 5 million people, are there 2.5 million cars constantly driving around??

thank you! Honestly this idea that autonomy will save us from traffic by making traffic more "efficient", such bullshit!

It doesn't change the basic geometry of a car. If you want to move X million people in a city by car then you need space for that many cars. They don't fit.

Driverless cars may be "a" future, but they're not "the" future. A much better future would be one with efficient public transport and cities that are safe for walking and bike riding. Given the increasing rate of urbanisation, moving people around cities in cars is extremely inefficient, and autonomous vehicles don't change that.