I mean... yes.

Blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wainwrights transitioned to auto mechanic or carpentry work. Not all of them, but for most the skills were portable. Several of the carriage-making businesses transitioned to automobiles. Studebaker and Oakland (which became Pontiac), for example. I'm sure the most experienced people lost big, of course, and we shouldn't minimize the damage done to people's livlihoods.

Unless you mean taxicab drivers, which was the term for them before the automobile. Taxicab = taximeter cabriolet, and a cabriolet is a style of horse-drawn carriage.

It really was the horse people that lost out the most. That's why the idiomatic reference is for buggy whips, not so much for buggies themselves.

You're right. And yet, just last week I met a farrier - a guy who shoes horses. He's young, too. Went to a horseshoeing school in Cheyenne.

I mentioned it to my daughter. She said, "Rich people are going to keep having horses." I'm pretty sure she's not wrong.

But there's still a lot fewer farriers than there used to be...

Horses as a pet obviously weren't affected by the internal combustion engine lol you can't swap out a two stroke for old long features

> Blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wainwrights transitioned to auto mechanic or carpentry work.

Not the same as the horse and cart operator, for various reasons... Maybe the wheelwright? But even that seems like a specialism of carpentry

> It really was the horse people that lost out the most. That's why the idiomatic reference is for buggy whips, not so much for buggies themselves.

.... Had you forgotten what I'd wrote by the time you got to this point?

This is unironically the best comparison.

maybe they became taxi drivers. But that too will be gone soon.

Can't beat capitalism + technological innovation.