Gear_Admiral 

A lot do. Hundreds and hundreds of people everyday are hospitalized from car crashes. The only reason so many of them live (and still on average over *100* people *die* every day on American roadways) is that they are also in big metal boxes.

To my shock and horror, in the past decade, parents driving their kids in a car to and from every single day became the majority mode of school transportation. Not plurality, majority. Talking to younger people ... this is somehow normal.

However, even back in the early 2000s, in K12 schools, having parents chauffeur you to school was only done very rarely and one way (get the bus home) due to dentist visots, emergencies, etc. The only times you saw daily chauffeuring by car every day was at a private school where one or two kids lived outside if the walkable or busable area or the slightly handicapped kids at public school who could get a 10% or a 59% on every other test but who couldn't navigate social settings and should not have been in general classes at all, but who had parents in denial. That was it.

If we responsibly took keys away from drunks, people who are 85+, etc. and had even 5% of Americans commute by foot or bike tomorrow, deaths would skyrocket. Shlepping kids to and from school every day by SUV is the only reason school shootings narrowly became the #1 killer of school-age children.

I am not saying this to rail against old people on the road, blah, blah. We shouldn't make it so that people have to drive when they are uncomfortable or unable to do so well just because the alternative to driving daily is becoming a recluse who maybe gets occasionally chauffeured around by friends and family. Already in America in most parts, a kid's social life before age 16 and access to a car equals playdates, parents driving you to the movies, and hanging out with whatever peers may live on your suburban cul de sac.