How can virtual reality help us prepare for potential realities?

As you sit in traffic today, you’re surrounded by other cars, trucks, vans and buses all with one thing in common: They have drivers. Now take those drivers away. It’s one thing to daydream about an autonomous future. It’s another to imagine the entire autonomous world where you’re surrounded by some sort of self-driving pods. Maybe they all have no windows for privacy — after all, the occupants might be working, or working out, or sleeping. On the inside they have virtual “windows” showing what’s passing by — a feature already being put into place on airplanes.