It's likely because Kurzweil is controversial in his views and his predictions are fairly widely known, thus the click bait title.

Yeah - blew my mind when I found out how quickly EVs accelerated. I always assumed they were much slower than ICEs but man was I wrong.

Electric vehicles and self driving cars. Self driving cars could be facilitated if all cars on the road could communicate with each other (and ideally sensors embedded in the road itself) but for practical and cost purposes we aren't there yet. Widespread EVs are inevitable and just a matter of adoption.

Things will likely be tough for a while but the potential for AI to solve (even trivialize) many problems is also high. We're developing clean energy sources along with other fixes to climate change. It may be a tough transition, but AI could bring us to a quality of life unimaginable before. Even now we live in much more comfort than people even 40 or 50 years ago.

Also society's not going to collapse. There will never be a power vacuum like that, the people pushing the collapse just have a fantasy of it happening because they don't like the way society is now.

Yes! This doesn't get discussed nearly enough. It's a logistical nightmare but if cars could talk to each other and the road itself we could drastically improve the ability of self driving cars -today-.