“No one is going to take your little deuce coupe away from you when self driving becomes available.”
Not at first, but yes; eventually they will make it illegal.
Big brother starts out just offering “safer options” and “environmentally friendly solutions”.
Next, they let you choose, but if you choose wrong, your insurance rates are higher and you don’t qualify for a tax credit. They use taxpayer money to raise “social awareness”, i.e., create a social stigma for the nonconforming behavior.
Finally, they just make it outright illegal.
The left will eventually take away your rights as sure as the sunrise.
For a while, they pushed latex paint vs. oil based as an option, then they used manufacturing regulations and work permit restrictions to drive the price of using oil paint up. Now, it’s almost impossible to get the oil based - the private citizen never got to choose.
People used to be able to rent out rooms or operate a business out of their home, plant a tree or vegetable garden, raise chickens, hunt, whatever - do as they pleased, within reason. Now everything needs to be approved, regulated, restricted, licensed, etc., and many things are prohibited - they’ve gone the way of the dodo bird.
They will eventually do the same with guns, cars, beef, you name it.
They get 2/3 of the people conform just by offering incentives - the remaining 1/3 needs to be fined and punished.
And many people are just fine with big brother making their decisions for them. Like you with the self driving car - you look at the silver lining, like being able to get around when you’re too old to drive.
That’s fine, technology and innovation can be wonderful - just beware the tyranny of the majority - don’t let them take away your right to choose - as they will certainly try to do.
People try to control each other - it’s human nature - we have to guard against it - that’s what being conservative is all about.
When they first passed seat belt laws in our state they said it is only if you are stopped for some other reason. They would NEVER stop you just for an unworn seat belt. Well guess what? They lied. The liberties noose only gets tighter never looser.