Same with cars

Drivers get so much leeway that it's not even funny. Commercial air pilots get their licenses temporarily suspended if they're simply accused of being intoxicated.

Short of being drunk, it's pretty difficult to go to prison for killing someone in a car, even if you were driving like a moron.

Not my experience. I knew a kid who went to prison for years after hitting a biker in black with no reflector at night.

Was the biker the police chief's son-in-law, or some rot like that?

Most hit-and-runs don't even result in jail time[1]. But sure, I can believe that hitting and killing the wrong person sometimes results in the law coming down on you like a ton of bricks.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/hit-run-drivers-kill-people-jail-t...

I read the whole article twice but didn't see anything saying that "Most hit-and-runs don't even result in jail time“.

It basically says that statistics on conviction are unknown, and sometimes people don't see jail time.