Periodic re-testing to keep your license should become mandatory. 50% of federal transportation funding going to transit and related projects should become mandatory. Getting as many cars off the road as possible in the coming years should become mandatory. Reduced speed limits in cities across the country should become mandatory.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7126a1.htm

If pedestrian detection "doesn't work very well" as the linked article* says, we need to take the simple, practical approaches that we know will have an impact, and stop sacrificing lives to the altar of convenience and the "American Dream".

* https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/aaa-finds-your-new-car-...