Here is a scenario. Perhaps you could spare a small fraction of one quadrillionth of your attention for addressing it. Thanks!

Supposition:
Self-driving electric cars will surely all but entirely displace manually operated cars in the coming decades.

Bundle of Questions:
Given the accelerating pace of innovation...

Isn't it likely that something else will preempt the rise of self-driving electric cars, rendering cars and ground transportation all but obsolete?

What if self-driving cars end up being obsolete because we head straight for teleportation instead?

Can't we simply forgo all this expending energy, moving mass, and managing inertia like we're still in the industrial age?

Extra-curricular:
What if teleportation is an innate human ability, simply forgotten, undiscovered, or not yet activated? What if through seeking technological / external solutions to transportation we are simply 'barking up the wrong tree'?

Thanks in advance!
@lovejoy