> I would be stunned if we agreed to eliminate human drivers from the road in my lifetime

It basically happened for horses.

Horses don't vote.

Neither do cars?

Drivers, however, absolutely do. And I do not see enough drivers voting away their own ability to drive any time soon.

	▲	xnx 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Right, I was pointing out that at some point there was probably a horse-rider constituency as there is a driver constituency today.
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		A few years ago I would have (and did) considered the notion that manually programming was about to turn into a quaint relic and computers would be writing 90%+ of code preposterous. Once an alternative becomes obviously superior things can change very fast.