IIRC, there isn't even enough demand there to switch away from leaded fuel.
The issues with the unleaded avgas rollout are purely bureaucratic. The FAA has been dragging its feet for literally decades to get it done. Even when we have fuels like G100UL approved which is a drop-in replacement for ~80% of the GA fleet, it still takes forever to get across the finish line.
All the spark-ignited piston fleet, but not the diesel piston fleet (which cannot use G100UL [nor is it needed for them as diesel is already unleaded]).
They’re part of the piston GA fleet for which that fuel is not approved (and neither safe nor needed).
Switching to a new power source isn't going to change the fundamental economics of airplane manufacturing. There just isn't enough demand to reach any kind of scale and it's not the gas prices - manufacturing collapsed to its lowest point in the early 1990s before gas prices went out of control.
The problem is mostly about what to do if for some reason the autoland system can't work, if there are sensors that are malfunctioning, conditions aren't nominal and some non standard corrections need to be done, etc.
There is a massive market for short-hop flights. They're just difficult to do at a good price, at scale, with human pilots.
Autonomous short-hop air travel, especially when demand is periodic or occasional, ably complements or even beats rail and autonomous cars in many real-world scenarios.