Also, cars are not killing people. Drivers are. Unless we're talking about self-driving cars that spontaneously turn themselves on, back down the driveway, and mow down pedestrians on their own.
People don't intentionally mow down pedestrians. Our current system, which includes both cars and drivers acting with the best of intentions, kills huge numbers of people each year. Instead of trying to assign blame to a particular actor in the system, we should be thinking about ways to change the system as a whole so it kills fewer people.
Ugh, when 'cars' is used in this context, it's obvious it means a car and driver together, not the inanimate car.
If you ask someone how they got to the meetup and they say "Bus", do you say "yeah, right, like a bus can drive itself. It was probably a bus driver responsible. Unless we're talking about self-driving buses that can spontaneously turn themselves on (blah blah blah)"?
"I'm going to fly to Berlin next summer" -> "What? Humans can't fly. Don't you mean that a pilot (blah blah blah)"?
What about things like Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle?
Just because driver's actions count for a lot of accidents doesn't mean that car manufacturer are absolved from doing anything. Considering how many accidents there are, cars need to be designed with that in mind, much like how touch keyboards work around our fat finger inputs.
User error is a design consideration (or else we wouldn't have undo commands in all of our software).