Can anyone tell me why "driverless cars" will not be the most important issue in 2016 election

[jberryhill]

82. To your last point...

...where things are going is to have all cars, human-driven or not, communicating with one another in an ad hoc network.

For example, semi-automation is already working its way into regular cars, such as braking for obstacles. If my car is behind your car and we are going 60 mph, your car and my car are communicating with each other, and with surrounding cars. If you slam on the brakes, your car tells my car, and both of our cars slow down to allow both to stop without a collision. If I'm in your blind spot and you are trying to get into my lane and turn the wheel, your car is not going to come into my lane without your car speeding up to get clear of me, or my car is going to slow down to let you in with a safe clearance. Add in more cars, and all of the cars start to act like a swarm which accommodates where everybody needs to go, and also reduces congestion by the entire swarm behaving intelligently.

The larger problem is that we've got to get out of the cars anyway, but we are stuck with a geography of sprawl which makes that difficult.