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Picture this:

You rise from bed, grab a bowl of cereal and head out to meet the YouGo driverless car that arrives at your door each weekday morning at 7:45. You step into the vehicle designed to hold one passenger in luxurious comfort and sip your coffee as you peruse the morning newspapers that have made a remarkable comeback. There is no steering wheel or gas pedal.

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The electric vehicle whirs along, merging seamlessly with the streams of self-driving cars flowing down Highway 20. Soon after, a self-driving minivan pulls up at your house to pick up your children for school. You order another vehicle on your smartphone to take your mother to her exercise class. She used to miss it because her hip couldn’t handle the walk to the bus, but inexpensive door-to-door service has solved that.

Because you can do 30 minutes of work on the way in and again on the way home, you spend a shorter day at the office, allowing you to attend your daughter’s soccer game. The single-passenger YouGos are thinner than traditional cars, so the driving lanes have narrowed, leaving room on the highway for a rapid-bus transit lane and a cycling lane.