You don't have to be a futurist to connect the dots. Once autonomous driving technology is proven, it'll be in every car. It's not hard to imagine that motorists will soon secure sizable insurance discounts for letting the onboard computer do all the driving.
From there, you can envision a not-too-distant future in which you can't even drive your own car to your vacation destination. So long, great American road trip. That sensation of steering your own vehicle down the road, of feeling the asphalt under your own tires, will be history.
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