It would require a quantity of political will to change that status quo that hasn't been seen for nearly a century but it's certainly possible.
The first step is to openly dream about it. Bring more people into the dream. Don't forget the dream. Once enough people have the same desires, eventually the right people will start working to make that dream a reality. This is the same practice used in astroturfing campaigns, except instead of working to make the world a more expensive and shitty place, let's steal the practice to make it better!
My mother in law does this. She's entirely unaware that she's doing it. She's incapable of driving at any semblance of a consistent speed. She knows some of her health problems and practices make driving unsafe and specifically bought a vehicle with a shitton of assists to try to compensate, then gets upset when the assists yell at her for tailgating, diverging from the lane, cutting off vehicles in her blind spot etc.