Despite absurdly disproportionate deaths from trucks [1], our lawmakers and regulators are too busy jerking off with wads of cash from automotive lobbyists [2] to care about something lame like “dying bicyclists” or “crushed pedestrians.”
[1]: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/10/31/why-american-trucks-a...
[2]: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a20879691/heres-how-mu...
If you shoot a kid you probably can't get away with "well I was duck hunting at the playground, it was an accident!", but run them down in your truck and you'll have a sympathetic judge telling you this shouldn't stop you from getting back behind the wheel, and how the kid shouldn't have been there.
Why should it be the driver's fault if someone else puts them in a situation where a negative outcome is unavoidable?
An adult man running carelessly through the playground is not a significant risk.
Anyway, you don't need to bribe an elite to support American car culture. Everyone is united in wanting to own an SUV or a lifted pickup and run over bicyclists.