Your profile says you’re in the Netherlands, which is a completely different place.

You may know this already but here in the US, even though driving is technically a “privilege”, in reality it is a requirement in most locales due to lack of consistent and reliable alternatives. That’s part of why getting a drivers license is fairly easy.

It’s also why your “I’ll have my son shred my license after I turn 70” wouldn’t work unless you were living in a place like NYC or Chicago, or were totally okay with having little social life (dependent on your kids’ and friends’ ability and willingness to drive you to places).

Collectively you decide what kind of country you want to create and individually you have the choice to move. FWIW I spent years on the Canadian/USA border and have driven there quite a bit.

These autonomous cars do maneuver like F1 drivers so I guess they are a big improvement already

Only the same way a Boeing 777 is like a fighter jet.

F1 cars can break 7g’s cornering where street legal cars have trouble hitting 1/3 of that. They do 0-120 mph faster than most cars can hit 0-60.