Came here to say what you said. Insurance companies will force the change. Starting, as you pointed out, with trucking. The trucking industry will be forced

Came here to say what you said. Insurance companies will force the change. Starting, as you pointed out, with trucking. The trucking industry will be forced to automate. As soon as it is demonstrable that automated trucks are far safer - and faster, as they need no breaks - then trucking companies will be forced to automate or die. Passenger cars will follow thereafter. People will maintain the right to drive their own cars, but only at prohibitively high insurance rates. When humans are no longer responsible for piloting the vehicle, it no longer makes sense to sell the vehicle to them, as there is no need to assign the risk to one individual. Instead, rented / leased vehicles will be much cheaper, and timesharing / ridesharing will be much more feasible.