Have you ever driven a self-driving car? It is a rather unusual experience because when you are used to the steering wheel all your life, you using the brake... sometimes you get quite a whiff of negative emotions. The distrust of a self-driving car is given by our previous experience. But...somehow it just works.
In one of the interviews, the well-known "bitcoin advocate" Andreas M. Antonopoulos tried to think about what would happen if the idea of Bitcoin, Uber and the self-driving car came together. Let's say a senior Uber taxi driver would already use a self-driving car and cryptocurrency payments and suddenly pass away. The car would, therefore, continue to process the orders and get paid for them. This would create such a first taxi without human input. An interesting idea, if taxes were paid, it would probably not bother anyone.
If you add to this car also Artificial intelligence, that car could be unstoppable. It could drive to the service to get repaired and paying by earned Iota (for example). That would make a perfect Perpetuum mobile.
But we'll probably wait for that for a couple more years. Though, maybe it will only be a few years and not a few decades, as many car companies are developing autonomous systems, led by Elon Musk's Tesla.
I had one specific example of what could be done with such a self-driving car. You go to your birthday party and around midnight you want to go home. You just call your car (like in the TV series Knight Rider), it comes to the restaurant, loads you up and that's it. If cops stops you, you are okay, because you weren't driving. Maybe you need to sit on the co-driver seat to make them sure it was not you, who was driving.
We may not see flying cars as in the Fifth Element or Star Wars movies, but something similar to the movie I, Robot, it is possible that yes (it drives itself, navigates, talk to you...). But the non-self-driving cars will not be cut off from day to day. It will take really decades, if not centuries. There are still veterans cars, whose beauty is that they are old models of cars. The traditional ones.
The future will definitely be exciting, I look forward to it in some way. Although I am a bit concerned at the same moment. It will be certainly a controversial time. Imagine a virus in the operating system. But perhaps the engineers will get rid of them before massively deploying them to the streets.