content: My guess is that if/when self-driving cars become standard, you'll still be able to drive cars by hand if you add some extra equipment to it. If they get rid of standard stop lights (and have only pedestrian lights for people and bikes), you'll have to add signals inside your car to tell you when to go and stop. Also some kind of signal/pattern on the car to signal to the other vehicles that you're manual, so they should give you a safe berth so that you don't do anything unexpected and run into them. Might even need a transmitter connected to your turn signals, brakes, and steering wheel to give forewarning before you've committed to a move. May also need special indicator in your car to tell you that you need to move out of a lane for emergency vehicles, or gives you a warning that you're about to do something dangerous