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Kind of tangential to this article, but I can't believe that people are willing to own a car that is impossible for them to control. While I don't think it is necessary for self driving cars to lack the option for human control, the prototypes I've seen lacked a steering wheel. Personally, I will never buy a vehicle that I cannot control if there is an option not to. Of course if the market becomes dominated by self driving cars without steering wheels, I suppose I'll have no choice.

I also see a lot of talk (in other threads) about the eventual banning of drivers in favor of a totally automated driving world. Can no one see the potential problems with this? Even eliminating the potential for government control, what kind of perverse incentives might arrive for companies? Taking you on routes with more stores as a form of advertising is something I can think of just off the top of my head.

Not to mention all of that kind of talk is very city-centric. Some people do have legitimate need to go places that don't have roads, or at least mapped roads. Rural places still exist, and it annoys me to see how no one seems to think about these places when talking about driverless vehicles, or banning drivers.