[efsavage]

> Make a ballpark, even lowball, estimate for that risk, and simply require the people inside the vehicle to compensate others for the risk being imposed on them.

I see your point but we're all imposing risks on each other all the time. I'm sitting on the 6th floor of a 10 floor building, presumably I'm at some non-zero risk of it collapsing, which would be lower if this building was shorter, but I don't feel entitled to compensation from the owner for the marginal risk because they wanted more floors.

I think we've actually done alot better in reducing the externalities of direct vehicle deaths (insurance, safety standards, vehicle inspections, etc.) than we have in other areas (energy costs, environmental impact, city/street design, parking, etc.)

[appreciatorBus]

I understand there's some level of risk we all just have to accept from each other. I just don't agree that cars fall under that level. It's a huge step change from the risk that you or I will run into each other while walking down the street - suffering perhaps a bruise or two at worst - and the risk imposed on me as someone drives by in a large vehicle at high speed, with easily enough kinetic energy to kill & maim a dozen people and a building to boot.