On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:05:08 -0700, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
wrote:

They are already over capacity in many metropolitian areas, which
you specifically denied. You're full of ****.

No, I didn't. I said that the roads are way more than adequate to
support an automated system.

I said that they
would be rare. And LA has incredible road capacity. Far more
than they could ever consume.

You have clearly never been to LA. Go to Google Images and do a
search for "405 freeway."

I lived and drove in LA for decades.

You are completely, utterly full of ****. What part of "it's
literally bumper to bumper for nearly half of ever day *now*" are
you too ****ing *stupid* to understand? No amount of traffic
management will reduce the number of cars on the road, and the
number of cars on the road is more than the number of cars that
will fit on the freeways *now*, literally bumper to bumper.

The roadways are not bumper to bumper. Waves of that move through the
traffic. Automate the cars, and they will continue to flow, and they
will do so at a reasonable speed. Automation also controls access to
those roads, and if optimizes routing.

All of this has been simulated. There's no doubt that automated
traffic dramatically increases the carrying capacity of existing
infrastructure.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if you believe it or not. It's virtually
certain to happen, and happen in the not too distant future.