My ideal for driverless cars would be that, eventually, the ability for the cars to communicate with one another and detect each other would permit increased sp

My ideal for driverless cars would be that, eventually, the ability for the cars to communicate with one another and detect each other would permit increased speeds and higher vehicle density on the roads. At some point, a human behind the wheel of a car would be like a horse-drawn carriage or a farm vehicle on the road. Most manufacturers don't even produce manual transmissions on the majority of their models in the U.S. any longer, and, in the models that do have them available, they're sometimes more expensive. More than likely, the manual driving controls would become something like the pseudo-manual shifting available on some automatic transmission vehicles: you get a little more control over how the vehicle operates, but you won't be permitted to do anything that will be likely to damage the vehicle. I think we're already seeing a lot of this in the safety features of some higher-end cars (collision avoidance/warning systems) and features like automatic parallel parking.