The instinct to drive a car yourself is greater than the desire for autopilot cars.
The mental accuity for driving a car is a state of greater mental development than telling a robot autopolit what to do for you.
The technologist want human drones who just do what their AI robots tell them to do.
It will reach the same end-stage of humanity the pilot of HG Wells Time Machine reached. Humans with the physical brains for critical thinking but with experience developing any critical thinking. Everything was done for them.
Reasons for practicing stick shift driving and the use of paper maps.