Obviously it depends on how public transport is in your specific area, but then again, if the public transportation is lacking, or dangerous to use, I sincerely doubt autonomous cars will make their appearence there any time soon.

In a world slowly making people comfortably numb, even this would be over the top. If you want an autonomous car where you can check mail and send texts on your way to work, you can have it right now. It's called a bus.

How is 634 = 500+93.7? Whilst I do agree to some extent to journalistic exaggeration, there is a good 40.3m chunk missing.

This is wrong on so many levels. D&D should also be restricted, I suppose, because of the possibility of being chaotic/lawful/neutral evil? I'm seeing a trend in nowadays' news, it's like all the important topics have been exhausted and people need to focus on the lesser problems. Or them being distracted can allow realistically important matters to get worse unnoticed.