It's difficult to observe this article as it regards all of these obvious contingencies as some lucid afterthought of the bad acid trip littered with free-love hallucinations which constitutes business culture. We could be reading an article that reports that programming will never really work because of the hazard of inevitable bugs. It's not that point is wrong, it's that it's too obvious to be relevant. AVs are a means not an ends. The landscape will be distorted to accommodate the technology to the extent that capital can find leverage, no matter how narrow the opportunity. The last thing tech culture seeks is rational organization of infrastructure; reasoned planning is a necessity for the civic bureaucrats commissioned to clean up in the wake of innovation's disruptions. If you want to see the future of AVs, study the prior art: rail. AVs will be provisioned "lanes" through a drawn-out dynamic of wrecks, litigation and lawmaking, the same way the 20th century accommodated the automobile. The AV companies are forthright in their intention to barge through cities in pursuit of profits as proven for business in every domain. That some captain of the obvious makes a commission posting a reactionary and arousing article making it seem like gravity has just been discovered is the industry media in it's most ordinary dynamic. Truly nothing to see here. Move along.