This is science, you canât improve the human, not unless youâre into eugenics or GMO humans.
So a human has slow reactions and is distracted.
Machines will just get faster and faster and given the dedicate driving job. Fewer decisions to make means those decisions are faster.
So humans wonât get any better than driving, but self-driving cars will. The debate is when.
Initially self-driving will be confined controlled situations, then into the open road, and be an option. Then the self-driving accident level will cross from above human (now) to below human (future). Then the insurance companies will charge more for insurance to own a human-driven car, so that pushes human-driven levels down, self-driving up. Then that uptick in usage will cause more self-driven miles, more situations where self-driving makes an error are found and fixed. You then get exponential safety improvement. A network mesh can make cars talk with each other so, say, round a tight bend if there is stationary traffic, the last car round the bend is telling your car to slow down, something a human with eyes and only sees straight lines, cannot solve.
Eventually self-driving are substantially safer than human-driven and youâll get a mass vote bias to ban human-driven, when for example a child is killed by a human and months have passed since self-driven accident. Then the law changes and human is banned from driving. The only debate is when.
When self-driving becomes safer, those humans who still want to drive will become social pariahs in that period while the law catches up.
Once you removed the human from driving, the vehicle can move between charging stations, so you remove the need for homes to be also charging locations. The self-driving vehicles cooperate to get a car to where you need it, predicting demand. Your AI home will know what youâre probably going to do next and eventually a vehicle will appear just as youâre about to need one.
Cities which donât have parking needs, and who have banned driving, will become safer, best air quality, and the most educated live there, so the jobs move out for human-driving cities, and when you move to the job youâre even permitted to own or drive.
As finger in air, change takes a generation, children accept something their parents rejected, so of the order of 2 or 3 human reproductive cycles, so 60-90 years until humans are arrested for driving.