[psychopathicdude]

Cars are like guns.....

A well-designed gun (even the most powerful gun on the planet) is only as dangerous as the finger on the trigger. And throughout the development of the gun, there have been other ideas that branched off and became their own. Tasers, for instance. Beanbag rounds, rubber bullets...but we still have GUNS. Big scary guns. Because as useful as all those other derivative tools are, sometimes you need A BIG SCARY GUN.

Even if "they" can convince the voiceless masses to sit in driverless cars to "commute" on driverless highways, (because they're safer!! ha ha) I hope that cars (as in VROOM, VROOM, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!!!) will remain so long as there are those who will buy and maintain them. You don't need an M16 to hunt rabbits, but they still serve their purpose, and thus remain.

I believe that all these "derivative" forms of automobilia are good healthy development. They may well replace the "zoom zoom va-rooom machine" for most, but I don't forsee the bleak future laid out in the opening post (and in subsequent references)