I really don’t care about the fate of engineers and techies. I care more where society in general is going — and I don’t like fact that technologies that should be liberating are being used to create an infrastructure for corporate surveillance and control in the name of misguided notions of absolute safety.
Especially when corporations and government are sharing a bed.
You also do realize that maximization of road use by vehicles and increases usage will make things more difficult for non-autonomous users like pedestrians and bicycles.