On: Computer-driven cars will convulse the automotive ...

[gaius]

This is different. This is a horse you ask nicely to take you there but once you're locked inside it can take you anywhere. The issue is not safety, it's control.

[leoc → gaius]

Horses have control issues as well. And a properly designed autonomous car is likely to have a manual override or emergency stop, things for which there are no good equivalents on a horse.

[pretense → leoc]

The manual override for a horse is a bullet in the brain. Why do you think cowboys carried six shooters?

[gaius → leoc]

The "manual override" will just be another button.

[saraid216 → gaius]

That's a completely different argument. tobiasu's point was that driverless cars take away opportunities for pleasure from mechanical aficionados.

[_wwz4 → gaius]

Safety or the electorate's perception of safety is ALWAYS the issue.