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by personlurking 3644 days ago
Needless to say there's a huge difference between spectator and active participant. We're not at the point that a person can just sit back and read a book in a self-driving car, yet sitting there, hands on wheel, and doing nothing but watching - that can get tedious.

Using a soccer analogy, I can go to sleep watching certain Euro Cup 2016 matches, but if I were playing on the field, obviously that changes everything. With self-driving cars, I'm somewhere in the middle (basically, a benched player).