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The movie iRobot was an interesting take on such a future.

In a few scenes in the movie, the female lead (the robot psychologist?) reacts in horror to Will Smith manually driving his petrol driven motobike because it has not auto-pilot and 'you realise petrol is explosive don't you?!?'

And after Will Smith has the forced accident in the tunnel (when attacked by the robots), his boss accuses him of unsafe driving because the blackbox reported that he had disengaged the auto-pilot.

So quite conceivably we'll end up in a future where manual car driving is seen in the same light as drink driving or speeding is seen today.



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