If we could agree for the time being that there will be cars without steering wheels and pedals, we would also have to state that it will take a long time or maybe never happen that it will be introduced area-wide. How are sports car companies supposed to sell cars if you no longer have your own driving experience in them?

How can an expensive Ferrari model only do 20,000 km in, say, 10 years? Certainly not because the owner drives it to the office every day. No, such cars are bought for a kick after work or for special meetings. Who would want to drive there fully automatically? Which driving experiences can you then exchange?

But it is precisely the group of vehicles that interests us in this chapter: Fully automated, but with the possibility that the driver pass over the system's activities. So someone is sitting behind the steering wheel and the sensors are hidden in such a way that you cannot see the full automation from the outside. To make the situation even worse, let's now imagine the vehicle as a Porsche this time.

Have you ever noticed how much the incredible speed of computers in their emphatically safety-related form can get on your pointer? I would not buy an electrically closing tailgate. And fortunately you can give the garage door a closing command and then go into the house. When opening it is admittedly more problematic.

Now you have such a Porsche in front of you, if you like in a vintage car, level 0, and you notice that it is sneaking so much towards the next traffic light that you have to be afraid it possibly will arrive at the end of the green phase. The system in the Porsche probably knows that the traffic light will be red for still quite a while and wants to take off without stopping. But even if you are forced to witness this, it cannot calm you down.

Own experiences with a certain 'sailing' function flow in here. Already coasting to a red traffic light with almost no brakes can people make do showing you how to do it with speeding up and stepping hard on the brakes. On country roads that lead into town, I've already given up idling with a little over 50 km at the town sign if someone is driving behind me.

Now you might think this issue is marginal. In addition, there would certainly be an automatic with the Porsche, which is clearly more brisk. But now we're going to take it onto the highway and we'll soon reach the first construction site there. There, the car-driving mankind divides into two groups. One always overtakes, especially when things get tight, the other definitely never not even if it is very slow.

Of course, trucks always have to keep to the right, and they usually do so very reliably. If there happens to be a system at work there too, the software in the Porsche could have agreed with that in the truck to overtake in the event of a severe loss of speed, although it will be very close. So far so good if there weren't a steering wheel and the driver's fear for his/her car.

You probably know that at Porsche, even a stripped mirror, including the ingredients and assembly, costs a fortune. And that's the most harmless thing that can happen. And human beings, believe me if you don't already know, are capable of quite a bit of irritation. You probably already guess what this example of an anxious driver meeting a finely calculating system is supposed to tell us.

Already the combination of automated driving cars with human-driven ones can be problematic, but so can such systems with anxious or somewhat bossy people in the same car.