For most people, it's far from a given that those activities require the sort of vehicle I'm talking about. Regardless, all this fixation on my "empty bed" com

For most people, it's far from a given that those activities require the sort of vehicle I'm talking about. Regardless, all this fixation on my "empty bed" comment is totally missing the point. We should look at the data, at how many human lives are lost each year because of the proliferation of these vehicles, and on that basis we should decide whether further regulation and/or transit engineering is needed to protect the public. People are, evidently, dying because of said proliferation, and that's just totally unacceptable to me. Maybe I just don't understand the mindset that I should be able to do whatever I want, for my own vanity/amusement/whatever, at any cost to my fellow humans up to and including the loss of their lives.