An example of this effect can be already be found in motorcycles. I currently own a BMW motorcycle and a honda truck. The honda has all the modern driver aids, automatic braking radar, lane keeping, etc. It has many airbags and is statistically about 30x safer per mile then the motorcycle. The truck is far easier to drive. I still ride the motorcycle whenever I can. Why? Because the motorcycle forces me to become more fully human, and the truck turns me into more of a machine. On a motorcycle you smell the hay as you pass a field. You feel the cool air as you ride over the stream. Every tiny bump and crack in the pavement has an effect, and you feel them all. You are not in a car, you are in the world. You must PAY FULL ATTENTION to the here and now or you will get squished. A motorcycle forces you to BE HERE NOW.

Our mental suffering is not because car is on autopilot. Suffering happens because WE ARE ON AUTOPILOT. So I chose to trade the 30x risk of death for a 30x reduction in mental suffering. Rational? God I hope not.