Today's luxury cars allow you to park automatically, or drive and follow the lines without putting your hands on the steering wheel or on the accelerator.
To see all the stuff where we introduce autonomy functions, it becomes literally nonsense. In my opinion, most of these features are at prior intended for people who have lost ability to perform these functions or maneuvers.
A man or a woman who are in all their moods, mental and physical, why they are going to use self-driving! Why are manufacturers trying so hard to sell us this kind of futile gadgets.
Example : Buying or renting a car, which drives to a given destination without a driver on board. What's the point ! If not the elimination of a workforce for a taxi company for example. Instead of this lost position, people will have to turn into hotline assistant jobs in front of screens to provide support for technical breakdowns of the autonomous vehicle or poor handling.
Yes, in this example, we can clearly see the direction in which things are going. Pure and simple replacement of human labor by software. Is this a progress ? Or just a race towards centralization of services provided to citizens and limitation of individual property, and more so the tracing of all our daily activities. The direction taken by AI is converging towards the formatting of societies and loss of citizens freedoms.