Why Google's Driverless Cars Should Go to Honolulu Next

People have a tendency to talk about their city's terrible drivers with a weird sense of pride. In Boston, they're called Massholes. In Philly, being aggressive and rude behind the wheel is just a given. Wherever you go, it seems, traffic is terrible. The automobile, the sociologist Henri Lefebvre once said, was "the last refuge of chance and risk in an increasingly controlled and managed society."