Will driverless cars fuel suburban sprawl?

In a recent article for the Wall Street Journal, writer Christopher Mims argues that driverless cars like those being developed by Google and Uber might lead to greater suburban sprawl. On the face of it, the argument makes a certain sort of sense: other major advances in transportation technology have enabled us to live farther and farther from where we work and play, so why wouldn't self-driving cars change our lifestyles even further? Mims offers a few reasons to back his predictions:...