I’m so glad I live in a mid size city and don’t even need adaptive cruise control because regular cruise control works just fine.

I’ll never understand why anyone thinks dense cities are a good idea. We have effectively limitless empty space in the U.S., there’s no good reason to cram people into tightly packed cities that inevitably have less space for housing than they do for the businesses that require their employees live there.

That was success?? If there’s a person in that car you’re screaming “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?? MOVE!!”

The owner of this car is a complete, reckless asshole.

Holy shit that was tedious and clumsy. I could have walked all the way home in that amount of time.

I’ll play that game. My 18 minute commute turns into 90 using public transit and I’m a not unreasonable 15 miles from work.

It only sort of makes sense and leaves out the crucial detail that 60 people will not be originating or dropping off from the same location.

This “feature” is the douchiest part of the douchiest vehicle on the road today. It exists solely to allow the full and complete douche experience: standing there in a parking lot full of strangers showing off your insanely expensive toy. Bonus douche points if you drive your toy into someone's daily driver.

That’s supposed to be a successful use of it?That’s horrific. It has terrible pedestrian and object detection, doesnt honk or have any beeping sounds while backing up (even my hybrid sedan does this), and just freaks out in the middle of the lane causing confusion.

The Tesla just sits in the middle of the aisle blocking traffic and sawing it’s wheels back and forth until everyone else finds a way around it.  I’d call that a fail.

Yeah, the “measure” was never really “average speeds over the Pass” which is what the vacuous writers at the Times first surfaced... and which this pieces barfs up again.

There are three real solutions that will reduce traffic congestion:

This is my one issue with cities -- I hate living in them. I like space and having room for things outdoors that are my property.

I’ll live in a densely populated urban area when they pry my cold dead hands off my single family ranch style suburban house with 2-car garage, nice yards, and an in-ground swimming pool and spa. Fuck urbanism. You can feel free to live in a paper walled cracker box with no personal space amidst a hive of scum and…

Have you seen Hong Kong rents? They do not have nearly enough housing supply.

It would also halt sprawl, encouraging denser living which might—just might!—encourage folks to walk or bike in their cities, to say nothing of public transportation.

This probably wont get out of the grey’s but I will try anyway. This article is idiotic.

Thank you, excellent points all around.

As a driving enthusiast, who likes operating a car, please keep building roads. Urban sprawl sounds okay to me.

Your point is excellent and the article does nothing to address it. The increased vehicle traffic doesn’t just magically appear - these cars somehow come from somewhere, and are going someplace, for a reason. Are there more places to go? People living farther out? Reduced vehicles on surface roads?