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On 2025-01-08 07:26:48 +0000, Default User said:
> Cryptoengineer wrote:
> 
>> You have a point on theft, but I was thinking more of liability - if
>> self-driving cars have far fewer accidents than manually driven ones,
>> the insurance companies will charge an arm and a leg if you insist
>> on taking control yourself.
> 
> In late 2023 I read the book My Murder by Katie Williams. It's a
> near-future setting, where some people never learned to drive and use a
> type of self-driving "uber" service. Others do know how to drive and
> have manually-driven cars.
> 
> Some of the technology in the book seems like it would be 10-20 years
> from now, other aspects way in advance of current.
> 
> 
> Brian

There are many books like that. In some the cars mostly use 
self-driving, but people can choose to take manual control if they want 
to. the iRobot movie's Audi has that option, as does Knight Rider's 
KITT.

Of course, people who don't want to drive themsleves have been around 
since way before the car was even invented. They simply use taxis, 
buses, trains, stagecoaches, chauffeurs, etc.