> Car accidents are exactly that, accidents. I disagree. With car design, function and ownership as they are, we (the people) accept that there is an uncommon

> Car accidents are exactly that, accidents. I disagree. With car design, function and ownership as they are, we (the people) accept that there is an uncommonly high risk of a crash and serious injury to ourselves and to the general public. We only call it an "accident" to abrogate that responsibility. On the point about scale: some wikipedia browsing suggests road traffic deaths currently kill about 10 times as many people as wars, globally.