Fortunately, in this case, you can have your cake and eat it too. There will be a proliferation of tracks for those who enjoy driving. There are already for the very rich and one is being built near you as we type.
These will be able to be done for a smaller cost to the users because there will be a much higher volume of customers.
My car is too damned quick to be really usable to half it's capability (or mine ) and it would be fun to have access to somewhere to push it a bit more.
I would rather see the costs of this stuff put into demanding driver ed and testing. The half or so of the populace that would be summarily booted from the ranks of drivers would create the critical mass necessary for efficient public transit. Win-win.
Well, you obviously have no clue about what is politically possible. It's going to be hard enough to mandate autobots (you read it here first
). To actually remove the convenience of an independent car from half the drivers (and you are being way to optimistic about people's abilities) won't fly.
Over time the tracks will fade as very few people have an interest in the cost of owndership of a car worth taking on them. In fact, over time the autobots
will be the public transit. I am told that Uber has told Google and Tesla it will buy the first half million cars they can put on the road.
From what I understand and guess of the technology the autobots can beat any but the few professional drivers of race cars from a safety point of view now. It won't take long before they can beat everyone, including you.