I'll remember that in 5 years when I watch my friend step out of the designated pedestrian cage and get pancaked by an autonomous Pepsico-Haliburton-Lyft-Exxon branded cookie delivery van doing 70 in the city center without liability for anything that happens

Less people dying is bad, because Brands

The actual solution to deaths from cars isn't magic, it's not hypothetical, other countries and cities have already figured it out. It's pretty simple actually, you just reduce the number of cars on the road.