Try imagining the transition period, usual shitty driver [1] vs. autonomous vehicle or vs. a car equipped with V2V.
Plus there are enough rich people in the world with nice cars that will most likely never give up their right to enjoy their car.
The proper fix is better mandated driver education and better infrastructure. Other countries can do it, it's way past time the US caught up.
[1] My favorite, the cut across 4 lanes because the idiot realized that the exit was being passed. I have absolutely no issue if he kills himself as a result of his own stupidity. What I take issue with is someone taking ME out because of their burning desire to win the Darwin Award.
No, the proper fix is going to have to be driverless cars. That person isn't flying accross 4 lanes of traffic to get to their exit because they didn't know any better, they did it because they weren't paying attention and didn't think ahead. They knew they shouldn't do that, but they have got to make that exit.
There's no education lacking about the need to pay attention while driving, but people choose not to anyway. Then they choose to make stupid decisions to deal with that choice. That is why the fix is not more education that people are ignoring, it's remove the driver entirly.
Losing 5 minutes by taking the following exit safely is too much to ask?
Tech is not the only hammer to use to fix the problem and I'm much more in favor of fixing the problem upstream.