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> Let's take Americans, for example, driving their cars to work.

This is easily solved by switching to EVs. A small-size EV (perfect for personal transportation) is only slightly less CO2-efficient than rail ( https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ).

I wish the world would ditch public transit entirely. It's nothing but a misery generator. It's far better to switch to remote work and distributed cities.

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I unironically like public transport because someone else does the “driving” for me. I’m sure someone is going to explain how Waymo solves this but sitting on a train with my laptop and breakfast while I magically get teleported to my office is much nicer than even being in the back seat of a car.

> I magically get teleported to my office

You work on a train station platform? My condolences.

And indeed, self-driving will solve this. You'll be able to just step into a car, and get teleported to the door of your office. After stopping at your favorite coffee shop midway.

It doesn't, actually: there is no good place to work in a car. They don't have tables in them, and they accelerate both laterally and in the forward and back directions which makes most people carsick.

Public transit is not miserable everywhere. In Central European countries it can be quite enjoyable.

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