Autonomous vehicles are coming. They will be safer because they remove human driving errors. The will be far more efficient traffic flow, and energy consumption wise, again because humans won't be mucking it up.

Millennials will embrace the technology because they can engage in social media and text to their hart's content and many of them have no interest in driving anyway. 

The transportation industry will embrace the technology because they eliminate the labor cost of human drivers, and they don't have to worry about human drivers needing sleep. 

The Ride sharing industry is not only embracing it, they are pushing for it because they too want to eliminate labor costs. 

This is a smart move for Colorado. This also means that we need to be ahead of the curve when a whole sector of employment becomes obsolete. That will be a far larger challenge than outsourcing factory work ever was.