This article will be one of the many held up as an example of people denying technological change even as it happens.

The truth is; 95% of aircraft travel is conducted by an auto-pilot system with pilots merely taking control in abnormal situations and landing/take-off.

The argument you have just used about self-driving technology was used throughout history about all technological advances from the letterbox through to the advent of flight itself.

It’s CRAZY!

The cold, hard data shows that self-driving cars are almost infinitely safer than human controlled and that is in an environment of human driving variance; in a society of primarily driverless cars the accident rate will close to zero and fatalities exceptionally rare.

Good luck being on your side of history; I suppose some critics also had to say The Godfather was an awful movie.