[kaftoy]

>At the moment city centres get clogged by cars because public transport in the suburbs is horrible. But if you can get a car to a transport hub and then commute into the centre, I think a lot of people would prefer that to being stuck in heavy traffic for hours. Maybe not you, but many people.

That is actually the "first mile, last mile" concept the author of the article puts on the table as being an interesting problem to solve and considers autonomous cars to be, maybe, part of the solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_%28transportation%29