Nissan has entered an electric car into competition at Le Mans, which is, of course, a great thing. But I have a further question about such races.

You know I’ve said before that it’s difficult for me to wrap my brain around people surrendering the wheel to computers, no matter how amazing an improvement robocars would be, no matter how much safer. But what if it happens? What if the large majority of autos in the future are driven by software? Would auto races be remote control affairs, the winner being the team with the best programmers and engineers? Would the driver, that mythopoeic figure, be disappeared? Would he or she go the way of the horse that used to pull the cart?