Comment by sandworm101

How quickly we forget history. Horses were also lethal. Look at the number of people killed by horses, either being thrown from them, trampled by them, or run over by carts pulled by horses. Streets were not some utopic garden of pedestrian safety prior to cars. There were no jaywalking rules because society had evolved over thousands of years being rather acceptive of horse-related dangers. When the new device came around, no matter its relative danger, then new regulations were needed. There were once almost zero regs regarding candles, objects that killed thousands almost daily by fire. But soon after electricity came along then we suddenly needed rules to manage the new "dangerous" thing despite its use preventing untold thousands of deaths.