Today, nearly 60 percent of kids get to school by car, almost four times as many as in the late 1960s, when just 16 percent of children did so. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/high-school-commute-drive-sleep-exercise-children-teens/588850/
And any amount of "electric self driving AI cars etc." won't change this inhumane absurdity. Seems people like @elonmusk have not gotten the memo yet.