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If the cars are inspected to be safe before going on the road, there are nothing but positive sides to this. Everyone wins, except the car companies.
Honestly the unsafe part is that they are a ton or so of metal going at speed only decimeters from civilians with only the concentration and control of your average idiot there to prevent manslaughter.
Compared to that, there is very little you can actually do to a car that will move the needle on safety, especially for anyone but its occupants.
I would not say "very little you can actually do". For example, the death rate from road injuries has gone down steadily over the last 40 years (and probably even longer).
In the US, we’ve leveled off and possibly backtracked a bit with the sales of huge grilled trucks. The cybertruck isn’t going to help with pedestrian safety either.