We embrance technology in stupid ways. It’s a thing we always do, It’s pretty hilarious aside from the death part.

When cars were invented, there were no traffic laws, people drove drunk and got in tumbling car wrecks, ran over people constantly. They were much faster than foot, carriage, etc.

When cell phones became affordable, people talked-and-drove so much and wrecks went up.

When texting became popular, people texted and drove and wrecks went up even more.

When smartphones became approachable to the masses, people drive around scrolling web sites rather than driving.

When social video media became popular and usable on mobile broadband, people drive around watching videos rather than driving.

Now VR headset, and on and on.

I see a couple takeaways here:

• We really hate driving, like a lot, at the expense of our own safety. Why doesn’t America especially embrace public transport. We have over a century of documented data indicating how much we all apparently hate driving so much we’ll try to die instead of driving.
• We humans are really stupid about risk assessment, but eventually society corrects the stupidity. Seems to be something we just keep doing ad infinitum and we’re just cool losing a few people along the way until we correct. It’s just odd.