Apple joins Tesla in approval to test self-driving cars on California streets

[Alex4Martinez]

5. Um. No.

The hour that it takes is because we've moved away from neighborhood shopping, and toward the big box store model.
It doesn't have to take an hour and buses aren't the only form of transit.

More and more cities are moving back toward a walkable model with more localized shopping.
Rail transit is growing while bus transit is dropping.
Demand response is growing, too, so to the extent that self-driving is applied to smaller public transit vans, for example, yay!

Your technocratic pipe dream of triple digit speeds of individual automobiles is utterly unsustainable and will never happen, ever, at least not in a way that all will benefit.