https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3kekj/replace-new-york-city-subway-with-self-driving-cars-terrible-idea > Instead of fixing New York City’s ailing subway system, let’s kill it and use the tunnels to shuttle autonomous cars around the city. > That sounds kind of crazy when you say it out loud, right? Yet that’s precisely the idea The Atlantic put forward in an op-ed last week when author Peter Wayner deemed a proposed plan to overhaul the New York City subway system that would cost an estimated $19 billion too expensive to consider. “Instead of fixing the old trains,” Wayner wrote, “let’s rip out the tracks and fill the tunnels with fleets of autonomous vehicles running on pavement.”