Imagine if we spent all of the billions of dollars surrounding those 30,000-40,000 deaths (healthcare, insurance, litigation, first responders) and invested it

Imagine if we spent all of the billions of dollars surrounding those 30,000-40,000 deaths (healthcare, insurance, litigation, first responders) and invested it into research for alternative methods of transport, eg. driverless cars, public transportation. No other properly operated consumer item poses a risk of death as high as automobiles.