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Never. People like to build things. Just like asking, when will the last muzzle loader be made? Simple answer, never. People love hobbies.

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After your "never" I wanted to write "When we don't code in lines anymore", but yeah, "last line of code" is a strange thing to achieve. Even now some people make flint tools and it's a growing hobby.

This is exactly right - between "Not Invented Here" and the pride of making something work in a new and custom way, there's always going to be people writing code.

Ikea's existence didn't wipe out woodworking.

This. It's exactly like self-driving cars. I hope it NEVER becomes illegal to drive on public roads, even when there are self-driving cars. No one can ever take the freedom of driving away from me. I love driving and I will never stop doing it. Just like coding.

But you're not free to code on publicly available software (the production instance) just because you want to. I'm guessing driving on public roads will become illegal for safety and efficiency reasons once automated driving takes over.

I bet you'll be able to go to a closed course and drive there though, for a cost. :)

I'm not sure why you are in favor of the government taking away our basic freedoms, but I do not agree with you, sir. If you want to live in a fascist country, you are more than welcome to move to one. :)

As self-driving highways, with cars that move at 250 km/h (155 mph), become common, regular driving will probably be restricted to secondary roads first, tertiary later. As time goes by, you will be seen as a nuisance from most of the drivers, as your car will be restricted to driving 60 km/h (37 mph) less than the rest in the same kind of road.

So by the time a law passes that forbids non-autonomous driving, it won't be a "fascist government" but your own countrymen who will take your "basic freedom" away.

But don't worry, I was using the "you" figuratively, by the time this happens, I don't think any of us will be alive. And, of course, there is always the off-chance that someone codifies in the constitution the right to drive a car, assuring that future generations have the freedom to kill themselves in the roads as we proudly do today.

I don't think that will ever happen. We'll all be traveling via self-driving drones instead!

The roads will just be for hobbyists who like to drive their own cars (and write their own code,) and probably transportation of heavy materials.

The Autobahn does fine with very varied speeds.

Well, you can't trot your horse down the highway. Not a far stretch to say "manual operation" cars are restricted to a subset of roads.

You are disregarding the moral problem of the needs of many outweighing the few. Given two options, kill 1 a child or kill 2 adults which do you choose? Either way, someone dies. Who is responsible for the potential man slaughter?

In a short phrase, someone has to go to jail / get in to trouble.

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