I understand where you're coming from. It's practically impossible for most people, especially in North America, to imagine a world without 2-ton metal things

I understand where you're coming from. It's practically impossible for most people, especially in North America, to imagine a world without 2-ton metal things traveling meters away from people at 40 ~ 100 kph. It's literally a piece of the landscape. Almost everybody you ask is a better-than-average driver, and it's the other idiots on the road who are causing the problems. But fundamentally, the problem is that when primates design 100 kph 2-ton metal things to zoom around in the millions, controlled by other primates, we're really bad at it. It's how you make an inevitable killing machine that has the convenient side effect of being good at transporting people safely 299 times out of 300.