Ratcheting up steeringless and brake pedal less autonomous vehicles

Perhaps I am a bit old school. The reason I buy and use vehicles is to do what I want with them which isn't always driving on a road and certainly not being confined to areas where driverless vehicles are practical.

Driverless vehicles do have a place in this world. They have been successfully used in factory automation dating back to the mid 1980's. They could well replace much of the current public transportation needs and effectively eliminate mundane driving portion of the work that taxi drivers, user/lyft drivers, public transportation (bus/train/subway) drivers perform. Think about how much of the work performed on a flight is done by the autopilot. The place this approach always fall short is in the domain of the unanticipated events. Subways/trains/planes today still require a person present to handle emergency situations. Even with the trending Artificial Intelligence algorithms, it is my belief that they can never effectively be trained to handle the un-expected. How can something be trained to handle something that is not anticipated?

I would never consider buying a vehicle without controls I could use directly unless I was going to provide its use as a service to others in an application similar to what taxis, Uber, and Lyft provide today. The legal liabilities might still prevent even these applications from my consideration. I would consider having an "autopilot" like capability as an option to a vehicle I would consider buying.

I'll avoid the subject of "security" for now. Any such "autopilot" type system would have to be wholly contained within the vehicle with no ability to be controlled from an external source to be considered by myself.

The subject of "drone vehicles being driven remotely" is a completely different topic. This could well be a replacement for human drivers present in a vehicle in the delivery industry.