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It's really a matter of infrastructure, we could do it right now (could have done it a while ago) but the infrastructure is gonna cost a mint. On top of that there has to be a major change in America's mentality.

You can trust other drivers more than the computer for one simple reason: the other driver has a reason to try to avoid an accident. Software has no vested self interest, if it screws up and a bunch of cars crash all it matters for the computer is that there's now a bottleneck it has to route other traffic around. People are also better at dealing with the random occurances that screw life up, like blown down trees, grid killing lightning strikes, and jackass pedestrians.

When you get right down to it, if you're gonna wind up in a head on collision wouldn't you rather there be a good chance the person responsible would die in the accident, rather than be 4 states away and not even know it happened? Really when you think of the travel miles involves driving is very safe and the number of accidents is really low. Of course if you REALLY don't want to be on the road with people take the train, Willie Green will be more than happy to point you to the best rail systems in the country.