<p>WASHINGTON // They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like I, Robot and the television show Knight Rider.</p><p>Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the US, California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: what happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and lorries, jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?</p><p>"All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," says Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."</p><p>If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?</p><p><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/americas/the-great-reset-driverless-cars-to-end-millions-of-middle-class-jobs">Keep reading...</a></p>