Undoubtedly death is a necessary consequence of life, and we accept all kinds of risks, but I, too, am a little thrown by the car analogy. It's true that in the U.S. we accept a high death toll on our roads as the cost of doing business--more so than in at least some other countries. However, after decades of declining auto-related deaths, the last decade has seen them heading back up. I'm sure the COVID shut downs will reduce the numbers for 2020, but heading into 2020, we were seeing large increases.
Effectively, all of the safety improvements we've made to our cars seem to have been overcome by two things: (1) the size of our vehicles has gone way up, leading to more deaths; and (2) we are more distracted in our cars (I wonder why? /sarcasm).
This is one of the reasons I'm really looking forward to autonomous vehicles: they will almost certainly be much safer because they will take human distraction and error out of the equation.
I'm sure we've talked about this on other threads.
Anyway, I'm probably not replying in any meaningful way to any of these comments. But I'm not cool with traffic fatalities.
