Even if it were possible to go buy a fully automated car today, there&#x27;s no way enough of the fleet would have changed over in as short a time as ten years to make such a ban practical. And it&#x27;s not possible to buy an automated car today; nor are the research prototypes Google and others have been working with up to a level of sophistication where simply productizing them would yield a fully automated car which <i>could</i> be used as a generic replacement for current automobiles.<p>I could believe that the <i>first</i> generation of fully automated cars might be available for purchase in ten years.