We don't manufacture most things/just a few big ones anymore

[Sean Hayden]

You can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold dead hands...

[Forty Two]

You can have my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold dead hands...

It's going away. It's just a matter of incremental steps. They'll get you with a rule that allows robotic cars, as long as the driver still has to be behind the wheel as a failsafe. Then, they'll realize that drivers cause more problems than they solve, and they'll say that there just needs to be a wheel available, but drivers don't need to attend to it at all. Then they'll say the wheel can be stowed away under the trunk/boot in case the vehicle has a problem and needs to be driven off the roads.

Parents will see this as a "protect the children" thing, and their 16 year olds will be much safer being driven by robot car to their destination. no drinking and driving, no racing, no reckless behavior behind the wheel - thousands of teenage lives saved. In short order, it will be seen as insanity that teens were ever allowed to drive. In a few years after that, college folks will see driving as bizarre and robot cars as normal. Then it's done. In another 10 years after that, the idea of driving one's own car will be seen increasingly as an absurd risk.

[Sean Hayden]

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.

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Anyway, we have a relationship with our machines, and relationships are built on trust. What are you going to do when you get into the car and instead of being taken to work, your car delivers you to the police for some unpaid ticket? 'After all I've done for you, you piece of shit'

[Forty Two]

Sometimes you drink the beer, and sometimes the beer drinks you.

[Sean Hayden]

Profound changes aren’t guaranteed just because it’s possible to bring them about through less threatening smaller changes e.g. Americans have successfully defended against attempts to reduce their access to guns.

[Feck]

Most of the car owning people in the USA are going to be heroin addicts soon so robot cars are a good thing Besides before robot cars are developed The US car manufactures are going to have to develop a car that can go around a corner .. They have had 100 years to practice and still FAIL

[JimC]