Self Driving Cars and the Downfall of Parallel Parking

I started reading the book The New Digital Age by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and some other business guy the other day, and it is amazing. Basically, the book discusses the future of technology, science, and our connected world, and all the potential it has.

I was reading this book while parked downtown. Let me set up the scenario for you. My car was parked on the side of the road, with a full line of cars all the way down the block in front of me. One of the many cars in the line pulled out and went on their merry way, leaving a space open. The only way to get into it?

Parallel parking. 

Most likely you hated it in drivers ed. If you're like me, you avoid it at all costs, because you suck at it. (On a completely unrelated note, my cousin who lives in Chicago has become a beast when it comes to parallel parking. She can park a semi between two Priuses that are four feet apart.)

But, there is hope. If you're a cool person, you've most likely heard of driverless cars. Google is working on them, so they're kind of a big deal.

My brain was focused on the use of technology to do things like cure cancer and help you clean your house and stuff, thanks to New Digital Age, so when that car pulled out, and I realized that the only way to get into that spot was to parallel park, a thing people don't like to do (or at least, I don't like to do), I realized driverless cars could be great here.

In bigger cities, parallel parking can back up traffic, especially if you suck at it. So instead of having a person park, or just having the car parallel park itself, we could do something way more complicated.
If all the cars parked along the road were driverless, they could sense when that one car pulled away, and all the parked cars behind it could scoot forward, leaving the open spot not in the middle, but at the end of the line.

This would get rid of the need for parallel parking at all, improving traffic flow in bigger towns, and reducing the need for me to worry about having to parallel park.

Maybe this is a stupid solution for a small problem, maybe it's not a problem, but it's a thought.
Anyways, you should really read The New Digital Age. It's pretty great.