Because humans are notoriously deficient at repetitive and tedious tasks, the automobile begs for non-human intervention. Transportation is just one area that could use some "Silicon Smarts", but certainly not the only one.
You do realize that currents cars already typically have around 25 processors in them, luxury cars perhaps twice as many. PowerPC in particular has a strong presence in automotive embedded control.
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