There is no data here -- it's just some guy's observations of some interactions with self-driving cars in Mountain View. There's nothing to indicate that "Calif

There is no data here -- it's just some guy's observations of some interactions with self-driving cars in Mountain View. There's nothing to indicate that "Californians are OK with self-driving cars" (although I would guess they are), and nothing to indicate they're OK with banning manually-operated vehicles (no way, no how). The link behind "I think that, inevitably, non-self driving cars will eventually be banned" just goes to a short blog post on the same site from a couple of weeks ago about a newer version of the Google self-driving car. There's not even a word in there about anything being banned. There is an awful lot of California outside of Mountain View (surprising, I know). I'm pretty sure California has the highest number of active vehicle registrations of any state (13 million in 2014, vs. 10 million in 2013 for New York, the most recent data I could find) -- and along with that comes an awful lot of car clubs and driving enthusiasts who would raise an unholy ruckus over the merest whisper of banning their beloved vehicles. So the title's misleading.