Everyone will go on welfare then.
Automation in various fields and throughout whole industries was supposed to be the bane of existence for working people, but how many telephone switchboard operators are still around? First the Area Code dialing system eliminated a lot of Long Distance operators, then the cell phones eliminated a lot of line maintenance people for the phone companies.
What about keypunch operators that typed up the IBM card system? Technology eliminated that job, but the jobs the former keypunch operators held translated into computer data entry, a much more lucrative job, and one which grew at exponential rates.
Until it didn’t any more.
Eliminating drivers merely frees up many more maintenance personnel, but the job is even now much different than the “grease monkey” that used to change engine oil and replace shock absorbers. Armed with a vast array of diagnostic tools, the new technicians are not only much more productive, they are also, in the end, a cost-cutting strategy, heading off and preventing problems before they develop.
The Luddites will never stop job evolution.
I bet that doofus still has a full-time job.
Detroit?
Ferguson or Baltimore.