I imagine it's kindof like the feeling one might get, imagining the situation of being in a chauffeur-driven bus, travelling at full speed, along with the rest of humanity, and suddenly discovering that there's no-one behind the steering wheel and no-one on the bus can get into the front compartment.

This is precisely how I feel about humanity. I mean, we came from within a hair's breadth of annihilating all human life on the planet during the cold war, for pete's sake. Now that didn't come to pass, but if you look at all the atrocities that did happen during the history of humanity... even if you're right and there is a driver, he is most surely drunk behind the wheel.

Still, I can sympathise. After all, people also generally prefer to have an actual person piloting their plane, even if the auto-pilot is better (or so I've read). There seems to be some primal desire to want someone to be in charge. Or as the Joker put it: "Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if that plan is horrifying."