On: Computer-driven cars will convulse the automotive industry

[leoc]

Horses have control issues as well. And a properly designed autonomous car is likely to have a manual override or emergency stop, things for which there are no good equivalents on a horse.

[pretense → leoc]

The manual override for a horse is a bullet in the brain. Why do you think cowboys carried six shooters?

[gaius → leoc]

The "manual override" will just be another button.