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I'm really hoping that we'll have self-driving cars by the time that I reach that stage of life

If you're younger than, say, 60, you're probably going to be just fine.

How will you get in the car?

If the car itself was the only problem then Uber solves that. But it's not enough.

I live in an exurban area only about 40 miles outside a major coastal US tech center city. There's minimal Uber around where I live.

You can schedule Ubers ahead of time.

And there are taxi companies as well. The point is that there is minimal service. You can't just pick up a phone and have a car there is 15 minutes.

You can without a guarantee it will come