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Bob Lutz is quite the car guy, loves Trump and thinks Tesla will go bankrupt. While I think he’s jumping the gun considerably (by decades) I have no doubt that it’s heading in exactly the direction he describes. Do I think it’s a “good” think individually? No, I hate it. I’m very suspicious and the prospect of self-driving cars just leaves me cold. But from a societal standpoint, I can see why it’s regarded as very appealing. It just doesn’t appeal to me, not right now. Check back in thirty years when my reflexes have slowed, my feet might be numb due to neuropathy, my vision is shot and I might not even be capable of driving anymore. Then, it would make perfect sense and be very appealing.

Check back in thirty years when my reflexes have slowed, my feet might be numb due to neuropathy, my vision is shot and I might not even be capable of driving anymore.

That assumes no progress in medical science which may afford to you the reflexes and vision of a teenager.

I think you make some good points, but to me, this is just the climax of the left’s wet dream.

For decades they have cajoled and tried to get the government to demand that we all get herded about in buses, trollies, and various other public transit schemes, including carpool lanes. Self driving cars, especially those owned by some company or corporation, will distinctly lesson individual freedom and my guess is that self driving cars are just a stone’s throw away from legislating people to ride share - at best, or turning this all into public transportation.

It’s not hard to imagine the government in the hands of leftists outlawing individual cars and mandating how people will move, i.e., may not move alone unless under strictly limited circumstances to avoid “obscene waste and harmful environmental impacts, such as globull warming”.

No, I have little or no problem with trucking companies developing and using driverless vehicles (assuming safety), but on a mass scale? Only in some totalitarian dystopia.

Can you imagine this future?
A person with a felony warrant gets into a module for a vacation in Florida with his family. The module ID's the occupant with an outstanding warrant an takes an initial stop to the nearest intake facility to have the accused felon arraigned and held for bail. This would work for ANY purpose any government agency with access to the transports system could contemplate.

What are the chances a direct route to central America would be build to evict illegals directly, without hearing and without delay?

“It just doesn’t appeal to me, not right now. Check back in thirty years when my reflexes have slowed, my feet might be numb due to neuropathy, my vision is shot and I might not even be capable of driving anymore. Then, it would make perfect sense and be very appealing.”

I’m just about there and I still want to drive my own car———it’s all about control for me..

I even like to manually control my thermostat. :-)