WATCH OUT, GEORGE JETSON: AUTOPILOT CARS ARE COMING:  From the Wall Street Journal, Dan Neil tells us why having a “driverless” car is in your future, and why it’s a good thing.  I don’t know about you, but I actually like driving.  Neil’s point:

“If autonomy were fully implemented today, there would be roughly 100 million Americans sitting in their cars and trucks tomorrow, by themselves, with time on their hands. It would be, from an economist’s point of view, the Pennsylvania oil fields of man-hours, a beautiful gusher, a bonanza of reverie washing upon our shores.”

Neil thinks we’d use all the extra time to engage in substantive work.  I think he is a bit idealistic:  Think of all the texting, online shopping and blogging we could do!