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I mean......I feel like you're asking hypothetical what if questions to lead towards the outcome you want. All the while neglecting the fact that those what-ifs are so far from reality that it may as well be moved from hypothetical to fiction.
IF it were true that humans were mentally incapable of driving cars, then I think cars would be banned. Now circle back to the word IF.
This isn't a story of a mentally incompatant man hitting someone while having no control of their ability to control the car.
This is a story of a hit and run. Now even if the hit was a true accident, you stay with the injured and don't run. But they DID run. The moment they ran, this goes from potential accident to assault.
They aren't hypothetical. They are both, in fact, completely true. Whether or not they "run" is really not a huge consequence compared to whether or not they "hit". Human beings are not capable of operating cars in a safe manner 100% of the time. We've decided that's okay, and your "good drivers don't kill people" mindset is a way of rationalizing away that risk so that you imagine it doesn't concern you. It's how we function psychologically when on one hand we know that every time we get behind the wheel someone might die, but on the other hand we really want drive-thu.