Self-driving will become the norm; manual driving will become uncool, then illegal (Smoking-ban analogy).

Self-driving will become the norm; manual driving will become uncool, then illegal (Smoking-ban analogy). | That's gonna happen to driving, too. So, we're, you know, the the self-driving cars are 10 times safer and the last person driving is probably not the best driver... So it's going to go from being like, well, self-driving is a nice feature to drive. You want to drive your own car, you crazy psychopath. You're putting my children at risk because you want to drive and that's that's going to tip. And I don't know if it's like 2, three years, but when it tips, it's going to tip hard.

That's gonna happen to driving, too. So, we're, you know, the the self-driving cars are 10 times safer and the last person driving is probably not the best driver... So it's going to go from being like, well, self-driving is a nice feature to drive. You want to drive your own car, you crazy psychopath. You're putting my children at risk because you want to drive and that's that's going to tip. And I don't know if it's like 2, three years, but when it tips, it's going to tip hard.

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