So self driving car brands are currently in the process of offering subscription based self driving features.
Soon these subscriptions will be cheap enough for everybody to abandon public transport and get into their self driving cars instead.
This means that everybody will be in their cars and it will create the biggest traffic jam in human history!
And finally, self-driving cars will be totally safe and able to drive completely unsupervised! While standing still in traffic going an average of 5 km/h…
It will be beautiful (/s)
It’s not a thought experiment in my head. It’s a highly studied and demonstrated fact. And it doesn’t require bumper to bumper cars, it requires cars consistently traveling with safe breaking distance, something humans didn’t do.