PRESS EDITORIAL: The worrisome traffic mix on once-rural roads

These are exciting times for personal transportation. Thanks to leaping technology, roads now can be traveled by plug-in electric cars, hybrid electric and gas powered cars, motor vehicles with computer operated engines, brakes and suspensions, automobiles that can virtually drive and park themselves or automatically make emergency stops or nudge the vehicle back into the proper lane when the driver is slow to react, vehicles with backup cameras and sophisticated information systems as standard equipment and . . .