In a few short years, laws will prevent you from driving on the public roads without some level of automation. There are something like >30k deaths on the high

In a few short years, laws will prevent you from driving on the public roads without some level of automation. There are something like >30k deaths on the highways per year these days. That's the equivalent of all American Vietnam war casualties every two years. The highways are more dangerous than any war the US has been in since the WW2. And a very large proportion of those deaths can be called "innocent" -- not at fault in their death in any way. There really is only one reason this is accepted by the public. Because there is no alternative. There is no policy you can establish that would stop the deaths that would not also inconvenience everyone too much. Once self-driving cars fall down in price enough to be a real possibility, every highway death where a non-automated car was involved turns from something sad, but inevitable into something that is squarely blamed on the existence of that traditional car. "This wouldn't have happened if Datsundere wouldn't have put his personal enjoyment above the safety of everyone else on the road." Since car makers will be happy to lobby for this (why not, they get to sell everyone something new), since there will be enough relatives of dead people so the grassroots support is strong, since the federal government has control over roads, and since there are no strong lobbies to oppose it, this will pass as a law as soon as it's actually feasible to replace/refit all the cars on the road. The best you can hope for is a car that will allow you to turn off the automation in situations the car deems safe, with the car automatically taking over if it feels like something is wrong. Beyond that, the only place you will have a fun driving experience in the future is on the track.