Why?

Nerd!

But yeah, true.

I truly hope I am.

Laws are also why mixed use development is very rare in modern US cities. Which was also in large part due to car manufacturers wanting people to drive to their jobs.

Laws can be influenced by corporations through lobby groups.

Sure, but why would they, if they can drive so much safer than humans? This is a genuine argument, and it isn't as bad as it seems, on its face at least. Why limit cars to a human speed, when they have superhuman control?

Of course, the counter is that it would make walking and cycling more difficult, but that never stopped car companies, who have always lobbied against both groups at every turn.

They may also kill the whole concept of pedestrians.

Self driving cars are (ideally) safer, so can potentially drive faster.

However, because of that, they can't brake as quickly, so that may cause a change in infrastructure from zebra crossings to pedestrian bridges, and it may cause the end of the regular, unfenced sidewalk.

Faster cars means more wear of the tires, so more particulate matter in the air around roads, so shops on those roads would go out of business, because who wants to go shopping with such bad air around?

For a more detailed version, there is a brilliant YouTube video on the channel Not Just Bikes about self driving cars.

Absolutely. He applies his professional framework (lawyering) onto areas where it doesn't fit (science), and the result is obvious.

Not necessarily. The naturolistic fallacy exists for a reason.

More like ban it outright. Anything that is generally seen as safe, but with some caveats, gets RFK jr. to foam at the mouth about how dangerous it is.

Tolerance is, by its very nature, limited. That's the whole point.

It isn't some sort of ideal, like empathy, where more is better (although there are people, mostly bigots, who want to convince us otherwise), instead it is the result of our moral and ethical positions.

We tolerate what we think is ok, we don't tolerate what we think isn't ok.

Good faith compliance is impossible.

Go to the restroom that is not compliant: violate the law.

Go to the restroom compliant with your assigned gender: police is called because you don't look like your assigned gender.

The spirit of the law is to prevent trans people (and anyone else who is not strictly gender conforming) from existing in public spaces.

Why investigate anything?

To make sure, and remove plausible deniability.