You would rather increase your risk of dying than give up driving? |
Absolutely. The same applies to hiking in the mountains with bears and cougars, drinking, eating meat, swimming in the ocean, being out in Georgia Strait in a small boat a south-easter, doing street photography on Hastings, etc.
I would rather see the costs of this stuff put into demanding driver ed and testing. The half or so of the populace that would be summarily booted from the ranks of drivers would create the critical mass necessary for efficient public transit. Win-win.