Do you delude yourself that those things are unregulated? And do you think that it's possible for an exploding car, or an inert ballistic projectile, to do anywhere near the damage of an exploding or falling launch vehicle?
If you want to live in a fantasy world in which there should be zero government regulation of any form of transportation, fine, but out here in the real world, where it's going to continue to do so, the case for regulating launch systems is greater than that for any other form of transportation.
Oh yeah, it's a great way to stifle progress and creativity. I mean, gee, NASA is such an excellent government-run operation; they're tip-top. Thank God we now have government in space! Phew! I was worried there for a second that we might have inexpensive and readily available commercial space flight in the next 10 years. Well thank God that government got involved!
But thanks to a bureaucracy unmatched in history, one of the few forward thinkers of modern aviation has to go to some desk pilot hat in hand and ask permission to push back the frontiers of ignorance.
I feel safer already. And by the way, your "real world" sucks.