To me it's more like a guy getting his first car and complaining that the car is driving him in a direction that may or may not be correct, despite his best efforts to steer it where he wants to go. And the only way to know whether he ends up in the right place is to get out of the car, look around, and maybe ask more experienced drivers. Failing that, his only option is to get back in and hope to be luckier in the next trip.

Or he can just ditch the car and walk. Sure, it's slower and requires more effort, but he knows exactly how to do that and where it will take him.

The beer brewers in my home town used to have a self-driving horse and cart which knew the daily delivery route going by all pubs and didn't really need a human to steer it or indeed be conscious during the trip. Expectedly, the delivery guy would get drunk first thing in the morning and just get carted about collecting the money.

Pony & trap could be largely self-driving, after an initial training period. That would have been a distinct negative to "upgrading" for some, I'd imagine.

Sell that guy probably got carried home by his horse after drinking half a bottle of whiskey, so maybe he had a point.

Or maybe calling a cab and telling the cab driver each direction to get to the destination instead of the cab driver just taking you there.