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I think these conversations are inherently tainted by our culture of widespread acceptance and subsidizing of motor vehicles. Cars are held to a much lower standard of behavior in just about every regard, and they're frequently the number 1 most prioritized from of transportation when we build, well, anything.

It's easy to say that cars obey laws but really they don't, that's part of the reason why cars are orders of magnitude more likely to kill you. That's why, despite cars being the golden child of transportation infrastructure, they're still the most dangerous. Because people don't obey laws. They speed, they follow too close, they roll through stop signs, they stop on crosswalks, they turn right as pedestrians are crossing, and on and on. And, when they do disobey laws, it's much more difficult for them to abort.