The root cause, is why a human was in that situation in the first place - stress, crazy work hours, car maintenance etc. All three of these are solved with sel

The root cause, is why a human was in that situation in the first place - stress, crazy work hours, car maintenance etc. All three of these are solved with self-driving cars. The human is the least-manageable part of the equation. Take out the human, stress doesn't matter. Them drinking doesn't matter. Them having crazy work hours or whatever excuse they'll use doesn't matter. With proper self-driving cars, them being conscious eventually doesn't matter. This is one of the few problems that can actually be solved with a mostly-technical (including law as tech, because law is programming) solution: take away control of vehicles from humans. The root cause is that humans are not good at handling motor vehicles going at high speeds repetitively on average. There are too many factors to cover. It's 40,000 people dead and millions injured in the United States every year over something that can be mitigated.