I don't disagree with you -- I'd only add that I think a major factor here is premeditation. The law already treats harms from negligence or even from "heat of

I don't disagree with you -- I'd only add that I think a major factor here is premeditation. The law already treats harms from negligence or even from "heat of the moment" actions differently than harms from premeditated action. Few of the vehicular deaths here are the result of a person making a particular decision to kill someone -- even if that is a statistically likelier outcome of distracted driving. That stands in contrast with shoplifting and vehicle theft, which are almost always planned actions, or at least actions undertaken with the knowledge that they are crimes. Whether this is the right line to draw or not is, of course, a major question.