Why does new technology always come with people hoping it fails just because they personally don't want to use it? If you don't want to use driverless cars, then just don't use them! You can still own your human-driven car. Some people still ride horses for fun. Nobody's going to force you to change. Perhaps oneday human drivers will be illegal but that's got to be many decades away at best just because of the lifetime of existing cars that people paid for and want to keep getting value from.
I personally enjoy driving too. It's like a video game but more immersive! However, that's not true for passengers. There are a lot of passengers in the world who get no value from the fun of driving.
"Why does new technology always come with people hoping it fails just because they personally don't want to use it?"
From the parent's parent:
"Second - [snip] We'll also eliminate one of the biggest sources of employment in our society."
From [1]: "The trucking industry is the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. [snip] To move 10.5 billion tons of freight annually requires over 3.4 million heavy-duty Class 8 trucks and over _3.5_million_truck_drivers_."
(This is the American Trucking Industry's website so they may be biased; I've heard numbers similar to this cited elsewhere)
The parent parent poster can very well decide not to use it (and clear they're going to do just that). Despite that individual's choices the technology can still change the world substantially. It's reasonable to fear the effects of reducing and/or eliminating employment options for millions of people.
It's a cliche to counter your argument by noting that technological change has always created more jobs than it has destroyed, and usually in ways that people of the era had difficulty imagining, but even if it is different this time, what I fear isn't the loss of millions of jobs, I fear instead that our socioeconomic system won't be able to effectively allocate resources to compensate for those job losses.
Here in the first world we live in times of cartoonishly over the top abundance unparalleled by any other era in history, yet still there are people who don't have enough to cover the basics, and even more who in spite of having plenty believe they don't have enough and are hell-bent on hoarding even more. In evolutionary terms we're not wired for managing abundance, we're wired for managing scarcity, and a failure to adapt to these new circumstances could very well mark our downfall. With or without autonomous vehicles.
I personally enjoy driving too. It's like a video game but more immersive! However, that's not true for passengers. There are a lot of passengers in the world who get no value from the fun of driving.