There have been huge strides made in technology recently that will allow cars to drive themselves. I'd guess we're about 10 years away from that being an everyday reality. This is one of the ways we can deal with our traffic and environmental woes. As the Seattle region makes decisions on how to replace the viaduct, whether to add a one-tenth sales tax increase for more bus service, figure out a fix for the Mercer mess and all the other upcoming transportation decisions, we should think about the transformative transportation changes headed our way. I'd like to see the city and region develop a plan that would incorporate this coming technology. Or, perhaps we should hold a contest to devise a new system of transportation centered around self-driving cars.