There's a false analogy here. Driverless elevators raised a concern in regard to the safety of the elevator cab's occupants in what was primarily a matter of private policy on private property. Essentially any public policy decision was about regulating the use of private property within private spaces and any citizen could opt out by taking the stairs.

On the other hand there are primary concerns with driverless cars in regard to the safety of non-occupants in the public commons and therefore it is primarily a matter of public policy regulating the use of private property in public spaces. The notion that opting out of public spaces is healthy for citizenship in general seems antithetical to a meaningful concept of citizenship in a liberal polity.

There are luddite concerns over self-driving cars. But there's an auto-industry counter tale of "Remembering when Tetra-Ethyl Lead in Gasoline was Considered a Good Thing."