If we take a “generation” of cars to be somewhere in the range of 10-20 years, then I think what we’re seeing today at the Paris Auto Show, and what we’ll be seeing in the next year or so, is the vanguard of the last generation of cars where you can assume, by default, that the cars are intended to be driven by a person.
I wrote on the subject back in July but can agree with the author of this piece. The future of driverless cars is inevitable but luckily, the next 10-20 years will be very exciting. My kids may not care about the car that takes them to and from their 9-5 job (if those are even still a thing in 2030) but I’ll still keep my 2025 Audi S4 in the garage for those fun Sunday drives on roads that still allow driver-controlled automobiles.