for example driverless taxis, which is an application of AI that most of us really want
Most people living in the US maybe. For most people living in European cities driverless taxis would not change much. Maybe more congestion.
We could cause the same change with reasonable public transit. Maybe driverless trucks but I think we're a long ways from that still, people aren't going to accept a tanker of gasoline flying down the highway with nobody driving it