The More You Let Your Car Drive Itself, The More Your Driving Skills Are Going To Suck

And given how many people with FOTB driving skills seem to be on the road now, this is bad news.

This is NORMAL today - It is called "AGING"
One only needs to go to a heavy retirement area - like FLorida to see the actual results of aging. It is so bad - that you would think that the government would pass a law making aging beyond a certain point illegal!!!!

Its not all old agers Tom. One sees an awful of young folks doing foolish things. Just today on the freeway a young woman tailgating, cutting in and out of lanes all while texting. Several vehicles driven by young men cutting in an out of lanes at high speed. Agree on Florida. If they ticketed failure to keep right, half the drivers in the state would get a ticket.

Most of today's car owners have no idea of how to hitch up a horse to a buggy, or even the basics of horse tending, and yet they seem to get along just fine. And so it shall be with respect to car-driving skills, if someday autonomous personal transportations becomes the norm.

Said these systems will lead to a world of lazy and crappy drivers from the beginning... Also, disclaimer I'm posting the following on a website of car enthusiasts who actually like to drive for the thrill of driving. An autonomous vehicle makes sense for someone who is cognitively or physically impaired to the point that driving is unsafe or impossible. Of the many people who would fit this definition, many are already impaired so severely that they can't independently get into our out of such a vehicle, operate the inputs to choose a destination or function independently at that destination, so that the number of people who'd actually benefit by having such a vehicle is a small enough number that it's hard to rationalize the business model for development and production. Now if you add to this population the average person who is capable of driving but just doesn't want to or can prove that autonomous vehicles are safer, then you can make a case for this. As for the safety features that "enhance" human driving, I think they do teach new and lazy drivers to be too reliant on the feature (e.g blind spot monitoring) and will lead to a generation of drivers with lesser skills.

It is imply a case of "Use it or loose it"

This is such a "no shit Sherlock" article. Just look at how many people can not operate/drive/backup a car without a camera or little diodes telling them they are about to hit something.