Cars absolutely are automation. They put stable workers out of jobs. No more horses to feed, no more stalls to much out. A single gas station attendant can serve hundreds of cars a week. Entire workforces were replaced with the adoption of cars.

Stopping automation is not the solution. Universal Basic Income is the solution.

It won't replace entire ground crews, because the machines will break down. You'll need someone to service them, and a small team to act in case there are no backups.

We'll have self-driving cars in the next decade.

Disregard that this has been true for over a generation.

By the time self-driving cars are a thing available to the average person, we need to have already fundamentally changed our urban design to one that doesn't put the car at the center. For reasons of city financial sustainability, for environmental reasons, and for general "multi-modal cities are better to live in for nearly everyone" reasons. The cool thing is, the more changes like these we make, the easier and safer it will be to design self-driving cars. Safer roads are safer for everyone, even robots.