I too wish that we could basically get all amateur drivers off the roads and replace them with with automated electric cars. But there are problems. One of the

I too wish that we could basically get all amateur drivers off the roads and replace them with with automated electric cars. But there are problems. One of the issues with self driving cars is that traffic will probably go up because all elderly people (as well as disabled) can now buy a self driving car. Cars are a major source of freedom for people, so trying to restrict what you can do with them is going to be political suicide. One of the things I thought about was only allowing professional (i.e. taxi, bus, lorry) and automatic cars on motorways. This should reduce accidents on motorways to almost zero which certainly here in Belgium is a massive cause of economic loss through time wasted stuck in traffic. But even this I doubt is possible. You'd have to have some massively expensive / privacy invading system to police it.