There's often little enjoyment to be derived from driving these days. So having the stress and added danger of driving in heavily congested traffic removed may be welcomed. However making a journey in a fully autonomous California would, for me at least, be about as exciting as being in a parcel on an Amazon conveyor belt.
And if you were to have anything wrong with your fully AV, would you be shunted off the belt and into the reject bin?
Whilst we all enjoy the many semi autonomous driving aids such as ACC etc, asking drivers to relinquish their actual input/control over their vehicle won't prove popular with everyone. Even if the system could cope with the spontaneity of making spur of the moment decisions on your route it would just about kill any remaining enjoyment that I personally get from driving. I suspect that I wouldn't be alone.
Call me a Luddite if you like but barking "Alexa, go slower" or something similar, so that you can look at a nice view or trying to pursued the wretched thing to go down an interesting looking narrow country lane when it refuses point blank, just doesn't appeal.
If I've misunderstood how AVs will work then apologies but if the idea is to have all vehicles zooming here, there and everywhere without human input then that frankly fills me with a sinking feeling. Can you imagine Mr Toad going for that? I much prefer being in control of my vehicle and my destiny however dangerous that might be.
Fortunately, I can't see it happening on a wide scale anytime soon.
