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If the government tried to implement such a requirement for road use, I think public outcry would be swift and vehement. As yet, safety requirements are implemented only for new vehicles. You can't sell a car without ABS, but you can drive one without it. You can't sell a car without traction control, but you can drive one built before it was required in 2012. In fact, most (all?) state laws allow operation of cars without seatbelts provided they were built before 1969 (or whenever seatbelts were required by federal law, I think it was that year). Huge swaths of the car-owning population, enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts alike, would be massively inconvenienced and outraged if we reach a point where the government allows only self-driving cars to operate on public roads.
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