FWIW, one way in which you lost me early on was framing it as VRU vs driver. I don't see it in such simple terms. There are road users. It is not always the pedestrian that is killed. Sometimes it is another driver. And pedestrians can absolutely be the cause of a wreck where the driver dies. Not to mention, someone can be a VRU now, and a driver in a few minutes, then a VRU again.
There are lots of good reasons to make roads safer, lots of methods for doing so, and none of them require making drivers the villains.
There are lots of good reasons to make roads safer, lots of methods for doing so, and none of them require making drivers the villains.