Then I spent a couple of days with some of the smartest designers I ever met at the Institute without Boundaries, "envisioning a new sustainable mobility vehicle" and drank the Kool-Aid, to the point where I recently wrote about How the self-driving car might make our cities better and greener.

Now Allison Arieff takes a look at the subject in the New York Times and comes to a different conclusion. She notes some of the possible upsides that I have mentioned, (safer, probably faster, fewer of them), but nails the issue when she asks:

Why Are We Still Focusing On the Car?