All driving is a boring, repetitive test, though the stakes are a bit higher for flesh and blood. The 42,795 Americans who got an F on such tests in 2022 died. We have no statistics for grades C or D, as the maimed, crippled, and traumatized go uncounted, and the sickness and death that indirectly results from paving the planet is impossible to calculate.
Teleologically speaking, death is the primary function of our most common form of transportation. We intend for it to serve many purposes, but the most important thing it achieves is to kill people by bending, breaking, battering, and crushing them. If your a slow reader, the highway system has killed one or two Americans since you began this mild rant.
The automobile ranks very high among humanity's many species-wide suicide attempts. Henry Ford was an anti-humanist monster who should no more be celebrated than Christopher Columbus.
Perhaps autonomous cars will improve the situation; perhaps not. The only thing we can say with any surety is that we will remain indifferent to the suffering caused by the meat grinding death machine that is the automobile.
