Correct, car drivers do behave in unsafe ways. Humans greatly value freedom of choice, and once given it will almost invariably choose badly and then be sad. We aren't allowed to make the same bad choices on their behalf - users will rebel if you propose that it's OK for a few New York subway trains to crash each day.
This isn't about railways per se. Individuals with freedom of choice on the railway will make bad decisions too. Track workers for example are routinely complicit in the unsafe practices that cause them to die, if we told them "take this dangerous shortcut" we'd be demons, but since they choose for themselves to take the shortcut against instructions we can only wring our hands.
This isn't about railways per se. Individuals with freedom of choice on the railway will make bad decisions too. Track workers for example are routinely complicit in the unsafe practices that cause them to die, if we told them "take this dangerous shortcut" we'd be demons, but since they choose for themselves to take the shortcut against instructions we can only wring our hands.