We were just another predator. But we got good at killing and eating and growing more people. Yet the instincts remain the same. People feel that to stop is to die. Which would have been true in the stone age.
Reason says slow down.
Instinct says go faster. For the last several thousand years, instinct has won the decision. The only thing to stop it is to run out. I tell people here and everywhere to slow down. Get out of your cars.