[Tommy]

Doug,
The future challenge for us manual drivers goes well beyond what younger generations want in their cars. Here's why. One of the great potential advantages of self driving cars is the ability to have more cars going faster and safer on our existing road system. But that depends on ALL the cars being computer controlled and networked together. For example, if there are 250 such cars moving down the freeway and a patch of open highway appears ahead of them, all 250 can accelerate simultaneously to the same higher speed without generating the accordion motion common in manually driven cars. They can also shuffle the cars that need to take the next three exits to the right places to do that without impacting the rest of the pack. But it only works if all the cars are networked AND self driving.

I can imagine a time when only networked self driving cars are allowed on stretches of high demand roadway. And I can imagine that trend will grow until manually driven cars are considered as welcome as horse drawn carriages are on today's roads. ... When most car owners have never driven manually and old cars are no longer welcome on the roads, our hobby will be effectively over.