Re: So thinking ahead to what is happening in the printer market...
> You're suggesting that in future people won't have any control over any aspect of their personal transport except for where it goes.
That's a dangerous assumption to make. Firstly I suspect the only "control" over where it goes you will get will be a nicely curated and filtered choice, you won't be able to overrule what locations are available, or if you want to take a route it does not list.
Secondly, you won't be able stop a third party overruling where you go. When you are not in control, someone else is. In the case of a car, it is the "driver", which would be automated and under direct control by a third party (company, government, whatever) in this case. That is completely different to you being in direct control over the vehicle.
I sure intend to never set foot in an autonomous car, and what gives me hope is that pretty much everyone I have talked about it agrees with me. It seems there is only a minority of nerds who really are into this dystopic future (and nerds are a minority themselves), the others pushing for it are authoritarians salivating at the control they will have over others.
The freedom to move yourself (and loads) great distances however you want is one of the few base freedoms left for people, and most really care about it.
The closest I have seen to people being happy with an "autonomous" car is one that can do basic things like follow traffic on a motorway or handle stop-and-go rush hour, both of which are tedious and not particularly enjoyable. However in these cases the autonomy does not supersede the human, it is there to assist when requested.