It's a lot of mistrust and fear, too - a computer could never be as good at driving as a person!
And yet, over the years many things have just been accepted. Satnav for example, I grew up with my mom having the map in her lap, or my dad writing down directions. Later on we had a route planner on diskettes (I think) and a printout of the route. And my dad now has had a satnav in his car for near enough two decades. I'm sure they like everyone else ran into the quirks of satnav, but I don't think there was nearly as much "fear" and doubt for satnav as there is for self-driving cars and nowadays LLMs / coding agents. Or I'm misremembering it and have rose-tinted glasses, I also remember the brouhaha of people driving into canals because the satnav told them to turn left.
And yet, over the years many things have just been accepted. Satnav for example, I grew up with my mom having the map in her lap, or my dad writing down directions. Later on we had a route planner on diskettes (I think) and a printout of the route. And my dad now has had a satnav in his car for near enough two decades. I'm sure they like everyone else ran into the quirks of satnav, but I don't think there was nearly as much "fear" and doubt for satnav as there is for self-driving cars and nowadays LLMs / coding agents. Or I'm misremembering it and have rose-tinted glasses, I also remember the brouhaha of people driving into canals because the satnav told them to turn left.