If they haven't even managed to make all trains run without drivers (how hard can that be seeing as they just start / stop, go faster / go slower on a guidance system better than any autopilot) it's hardly likely that commercial aircraft are going to operate without pilots anytime soon.
Try changing terminals at LGW, LAS, ORD, MCO or traveling along the Las Vegas strip on the monorail and then make that comment.
As people say we are merely train driver's now. In the days of steam trains and boats they originally started with the pullman class and 1st class and every wee boy wanted to be a train driver, nowadays a train driver is really seen as working class.
Same with aviation, originally it was exclusive and a pilot was a god. Just like the train driver the mystery has gone and now we travel on flying pubs. The cudos of being a pilot has gone and we are mere train drivers. And soon like the train at LGW we could disappear.