I’d say that’s a relative value judgement that is really hard to say, and irrelevant anyway. If something done terribly is the only way to do it, that’s the way it will be done if people really want it done. Medicine was done terribly for millennia, but there was no alternative but to suffer.
What’s meaningful is whether humans driving cars are better or worse than any alternatives, and until self driving cars are documentably better, there currently is no alternative other than public transit, feet or pedals. Does anyone have the comparative safety of cars and bikes per mile handy? A quick search could not yield it.
