> But what if self-driving cars were 10x safer than human-driven cars?

But there is no evidence of this, or that they're even as safe as human drivers. In fact, Teslas are involved in more accidents than other luxury cars.

Make it better? Move to a better area?

I strongly advise that anyone who pays attention to national politics diversify at least 50% of that energy into local issues.

Moving has a lot of inertia, and might not be possible if nobody is interesting in buying your house, or other area's rent is too high. Your area might have _had_ great service, but has rapidly degraded. There are tons of things outside your control. Having a car is the common answer to gain back some of that.

You'll notice I had a solution ahead of moving.