Someone left this comment and apparently deleted it while I was looking for and failing to find citations for actual numbers of lives saved by ambulance, for example. I have redacted their handle, but I want to leave my reply here:

Because people's lives are at stake right now. Every year 10s of thousands of people die due to cars.

Delaying innovation that would prevent deaths dooms those 10s of thousands of people to death in the future.

You say that as if, clearly, cars never save lives. It's all downside.

Ambulances save lives.

Fire trucks save lives.

Those are the easy, obvious answers. But I would argue that lives are also saved and enhanced by access to jobs, access to better quality food because of our complicated infrastructure, access to better medical care, etc.

You aren't counting when things go right. You are only counting when they go wrong.