I belong to a steam tractor club. The club was started a hundred years ago to lobby for the right to drive the tractors on the roads to get to plowing/threshing gigs. Now the tractors get trailered over the roads.
I expect manual drive cars to be about as welcome on public roads as farm equipment and horse buggies.
Manual drive cars will be seen as terribly dangerous and they will require expensive insurance policies. It’s gonna happen fast. I keep cars for 10-20 years, and I’m at 15 now. I doubt I buy another manual drive/gas powered car — it will not be welcome on the roads in less than 15 years.
“Now the tractors get trailered over the roads.”
Massive agricultural machine are a common sight the road just outside of Raleigh.
I have not heard of any pushback against manuals, at least not any more than there is for ICE cars in general. I think the people who cannot drive them are what should be banned.