One of the most odious duties that our nanny-state delegates to itself is to make driving idiot-proof for everybody, even if nobody ever asked them. I predict that one day cars will be so safe that only the very wealthy will be able to afford the mandatory equipment that makes them so. I've gotten away with driving small cars and motorcycles for almost forty years, and I'm alive to tell of it. The thought of dealing with a highway full of SUVs on auto-pilot is not a happy one.
Motorcycles, here, but I haven't ridden in a couple of years while the HOG gathers too much dust...
I am begining to think that the cliche blonde on a cell phone in a SUV could improve with auto pilot.
One even flipped me off as she illegal left-turned in front of me while yakking on the phone--she had to take the phone away from her face to turn while she was 'communicating' with me--and I was in a full sized van that day (no, I did not know her).
However, I have driven through some horrible weather, sometimes down to 30 mph, fast enough to bust drifts, slow enough to (hopefully) avoid hitting someone, and fast enough to keep from getting rear-ended. I can see getting out in something like that, fifty miles from anywhere, and having the brakes kicking in ...No thanks. Almost all of the vehicles (and they are legion) in our household have no computer, no power steering, etc.
They may be old, but I can fix them.
There are very few small cars I can reasonably fit in. The VW wasn't one of them, but they were notoriously good in snow, and not that hard to maintain or even rebuild.