Guest comment: Bring on the automated cars!

Guest comment: Bring on the automated cars!

Years ago, in Amsterdam, I met a brilliant Dutch physicist who told me—over beer and a plate of ribs, I think—that self-driving cars weren’t so far away.  “The thing is,” Desmond continued, topping off my glass as he spoke, “they’ll be more like public transportation or taxis, something we don’t own, something one summons with the push of a button. And eventually, they won’t even need to be shaped like cars as we know them at all. They may be cu…