[jyl]

If they are going all Star Trek - wait, even the Enterprise had plenty of physical controls. When Sulu was firing photon torpedoes, he wasn’t like “menu, torpedos, status, arm, no wait, go back, select bay, okay, now menu up scroll menu down, arm, what, not arm all, clear all, select bay to arm, yes arm now!, spinning wheel, no no no not spinning wheel” “Lieutenant, fire or take evasive action!” “yes Captain, menu up, up, scroll, down, down, evade mode on, schedule evasive maneuver, select evasive maneuver, menu, oh f—k it”.

So, if they are going all Star Trek minus the physical controls, then they need to get the voice activation thing figured out. If Alexa can order our toilet paper and play our music, she should be able to change cabin environment, plot course to Costco, and connect Bluetooth. That would leave our eyes and hands free to actually drive the car.