Ben Evans, writing for his blog:

No more worrying about parking. If you don’t need to worry about parking yet can be driven there directly and affordably, how much travel shifts from public transport to cars? How many people visit a busy central area they might previously have avoided for that reason (the West End of London, for example)? But then, where does that car go afterwards – does it drop you off for dinner and drive off to a cheap carpark, or does it spend the next few hours driving other people around for a fee? The more autonomous cars there are, the more appealing on-demand becomes. Quite where the second-order effects end up is hard to predict – for example, where does it leave public transport if routes start emptying out, and what does that mean for people on very low incomes? What does it do to cycling?

This is just a tiny point in a post chock full of them. There is just so much richness in this writing.

There’s the sea change coming to the way cars are built, as they move from complex transmission and combustion engines to far simpler electric motors, with the commoditization of parts that makes cars simpler to build and enhances competition.

Take the time to read the whole thing. It makes me excited about the future of cars and helps me understand why Apple would and could get into this market.