A car has more function than just going about your daily life. It gives you freedom to go wherever you please as long as there is a road. You as an individual might never use this freedom but it is there and many people take advantage of it. Same with a horse or a bicycle but with a car you can go further and with few restrictions.

Giving this up because of the temporary convenience of self driving cars even if we assume the technology is here is a poor trade because as we have seen repeatedly with technology comes obsessive surveillance and control. And busy bodies love to impose rules and restrictions once it becomes possible. And these will be on the free movement of people.

So its important to consider the ramnifications and tradeoffs and move carefully and with societal consensus rather than because some VCs are bullish on self driving technology or because the technology exists.