Disney has always been vehicle-based. Whether it's Disney World or Disney Land, either way, you take your car or bus to the entrance, take a tram through to the main park, and then ride attractions based on various types of vehicles. With the amount of space and land that makes up Disney (an apparent 7100 developed acres in Disney World) it makes sense to give the reins of self-driving car development to one of the most populous and popular ride-based theme parks in North America.

Where else should autonomous vehicles begin than the place that brought the world the Autotopia ride, where cars have eyes, thoughts, and speech. Or, where the visitors ride trains, trams, horse-drawn carriages, and safari vehicles day through night. The idea of a self-driving car fits in easily with the mix that Disney's Tomorrowland and Innoventions has been advocating to children and adults of all ages.

Throw in the problem of long waits and the sweltering heat of summer, it makes sense to allow visitors to choose to take autonomous vehicles, easily hailed at their whim for them to travel quickly from one section of Disney World to the next. Forbes's Adam Ozimek writes that "tourists on an expensive vacation are going to have a higher time value of money and willing to pay than urban commuters"-more than likely, just as churros can rise up to $4.25 and water sprays being around $19 dollars a pop, tourists at the resort would easily jump at the chance for the isolated ride to the next station without any other families in the mix. The ease of access will only help make "the happiest place on earth" a more convenient experience.

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Disney does not need to churn out a primarily taxi-like system either to revolutionize their traveling hubs while fitting into their theme of happiness, dreams, and vehicle-based "rides". There have long been arguments for the importance of public transportation over self-driving cars and of the dangers of maintaining un-manned vehicles on public roads. Disney's lands, however, stretch thousands of acres and can be easily managed by the amount of possible stations at resorts and around the theme parks. Unmanned mass transportation, as opposed to personal cars, has also already been tested in public spaces already. In terms of parks, Hamaxing Railway Cultural Park in Taiwan has already ran driverless mini-buses through the month of October.

In fact, in Las Vegas, an unmanned shuttle test started where the only flaw which resulted in a crash was caused from the negligence of a --not the unmanned vehicle itself. with a representative from Keolis has already revealed their unmanned shuttle "can back up... if the moving object keeps coming toward [it]" in other similar cases.

Not only is the worry of driving into semi-trucks less of a trouble at Disney but the acres of land catering to mostly visitors still have potential for expansion to help mitigate problems that can be caused by a large number of vehicles. The time for a driver-less Disney experience is already more than just a dream-in-the-works. In fact, the Los Angeles Times has already reported of a source planning to begin an employee transport program with driverless vehicles.