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I often remark that people really did want a faster horse.

How hard would it be to put an actual horse in control of a car?

You get the speed of a car, and the self driving of the horse (or some other animal).

Here's a brief history tracking the progress of developments in that area. I'm not sure where this tech lies on the Gartner Hype Curve though.

edit to add one more as I realised that one of my favorite 'most worrying tech developments' fits right in...