Self-driving cars in his age were called horsses. Those (and donleys and mules) still remain the preferred mode of autonomous all-terrain mobility in some regions.

The US Army was actively considering resurrecting pack mules fpr use in Afghanistan as of 2011, though I don't believe that actually occurred.

Otherwise, E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909) envisions much of what you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461514 (PDF)

Something of an HN perennial.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q="The%20Machine%20Stops"

Several notable postings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637635 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544256