No thank you. I want to drive myself, and not just because I don't trust a machine or whatever – I like driving, and I like doing it with a manual car without lane guidance and all other "driver assists". I wven rarely use cruise control. I went through and paid for to have a license to that allows me to do it, and do it responsibly instead of relinquishing control to a machine. I currently drive a van for work in a city, something like 200 km/day. If we everything is automated and computers decide everything for us, the dumber people will get since they don't have to bother thinking for themselves nor do they have to take responsibility for themselves since "it wasn't me, it was the machine" will be their future defence for everything. Soon, Neowin's writers will be out of a job because AI can do it just fine and it doesn't need pay. Wikipedia – a free service with voluntary writers – just started replacing real people with AI, and had to shut it down (at least for now). Lets let ai AI and those that run it (or rather run them) the keys the the world and watch it burn because no one is able to actually do anything without some AI assistant telling them what to do (driving included). What a world!

I’m sure in the last 12 months there’s been more air disasters

And it will get even wors the more automation and other features limiting driver interaction there are in never cars. The same also applies to many other things these days than driving. Let's make people dumber by not educating them and building things in a way where they do everything for people! Welcome to the future, where you don't have to think for yourself! Welcome to idiocrazy!

still to charge every day?

I don't like a car doing things for me, and I don't want to ride in a car (or train) that drives itself. I already hate things like lane guidance which likes to aim for potholes etc. in favor of not driving over a painted line. I also like manual cars better and the only time I've missed an automatic gearbox is in some very rare high traffic situations where I've been stuck in very slow moving congestion. I even very rarely use cruise control. I also want to do parking myself instead a car doing it for me. Driving is also a part of my current job where I move around a city all the time with a van. And yes, I am European, Finnish to be exact.