[lwat]

No, it's like cruise control. If you want to use it, you hit the button. If you want to drive yourself, you don't.

[prodigal_erik]

What I'm predicting is a ban on manual control in heavy traffic. Besides any throughput improvement, all-autodrive traffic will probably be safer, which is our priority (to an IMHO unhealthy extreme).

[lwat]

How will an eventual ban (after every vehicle has auto-drive presumably) on manual control have any impact on the initial take-up of auto-drive systems? What you're talking about (if it ever happens) will only happen many years after auto-drive becomes popular.

[prodigal_erik]

Good point. There will be a period where it's optional, but if they hit the market by 2020 it will probably be mandatory by 2030.