Rats can drive little cars if you give them the right brain computer interface. Rats are gangster.
So do orangutans, actually, who can easily operate human vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_0ImDYrPY
imo rats are by far the best pet, the only annoying part I would say is, as soon as you both start to fall deeply in love with each other: they die.