But that's my point - commanding isn't the same thing as driving. If you're the passenger in a taxi, you can be commanding but you're clearly not driving. If you have a car with an automatic transmission, you're still driving in most ways (you steer, brake, etc.) but you're no longer the driver of the transmission; you're just the commander of it.

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If you have a car with manual transmission then you have additional control over modes of the engine. But it's not the essence of driving, because you can have control over mode of the engine of washing machine, for example.
Key component of driving is control over route and speed of a car. And you still have it with automatic transmission.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'd go so far as to say you aren't the commander of the transmission. The programmer who designed the shifting algorithm controls it.