No driver is perfect, certainly, but I don't buy that "everyday inattention" can result in a car mounting the curb and killing someone.  And writing it off like that just means that the problem is never going to be solved.  It's a terrible attitude for us to have as a society, that these kinds of things are just unavoidable.

The penalties we have today tell people that they don't *really* need to be that careful when they're driving, that everyone makes mistakes, that they should *try* not to kill a pedestrian, but if it happens, it's not a big deal.  That is an attitude that I would like to see changed.