Given that I only have one life, I actually only care about the cost in lives, not cost per mile. The way we design our society impacts how much we are forced

Given that I only have one life, I actually only care about the cost in lives, not cost per mile. The way we design our society impacts how much we are forced to drive. Our current plans force people to drive more and more. Even without increasing miles, deaths by cars are somewhat decreasing, especially compared to decades ago, and I've posted those graphs elsewhere in this thread. The real way to decrease car deaths isn't to decrease deaths per mile, it's to allow people to avoid the risk at all in the first place. Because a lot of these deaths stents even from people in the cars, it's from cars ramming into those who haven't gotten in cars but still must risk exposure to them in order to live in the world.