What if instead of replacing truck drivers with AI, we replaced government bureaucracy with AI?

And we localize it and keep its function specific.

Rather than appointing a Highway Maintenance Board, create a local highway maintenance AI which schedules maintenance based on traffic data, offers bid contracts and pays contractors out of micropayments collected by those who use those local roads.

Costs would not be decided by government bureaucrats who funnel kickbacks to political campaigns and give contracts to their cousin.

Open auditable data, open auditable code.