I have no worry , I have photon torpedoes on my mind . Perhaps some body will give you a cheeseburger !
'numerous' can mean half a dozen or ten thousand, right? And from what I've heard, even then some come a cropper?? Nah, I reckon teleporting is the way to go.
Hundreds at least. Yes they do sometimes come a cropper but in millions of miles of testing, they come a cropper much less often than those driven by humans.
Highway stats show that human drivers impact our expected longevity. My bet is that there can be safety gains made with automobiles. Signifiant classes of accidents seem likely to be solved by allowing technology to take over driving tasks - even if only in specific environments. Teleporting is interesting, but it includes the death of the person being teleported - not a particularly attractive "solution" to your concerns about transportation safety.
Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise was teleported often enough by Scotty, and he lived to tell the tale?
There are debates about what that teleporter was actually doing. The leading explanation is that what was moved from one place to another was information. One must then decide what happened to the actual physical body. And, it seems the only realistic explanation is that it was discarded. One might imagine that if a precise reconstruction were made, it would have the same memories, including knowledge of the immediate danger/whatever. As I remember it, there were episodes in which the transporter created duplicates. To do that, it would have been necessary for the transporter to materialize a body from material other than what came from the original body.
Technically you're wrong, with the method WRM described a single photon has been reproduced multiple times now, the last experiment I know of was by a chinese team. It's all to do with quantum entanglement and how this allow information on the photon to be duplicated. https://futurism.com/scientists-just-teleported-a-photon-from-earth-to-orbit-for-the-first-time I'm fairly sure you'll just dismiss this out of hand as you usually do with anything you see as not being feasible or can't understand. Quantum entanglement is well understood now and has been verified through multiple experiments, maybe you can read up on it before dismissing it out of hand.
Well it's simply that I don't believe stuff like this (from the link) "Scientists Just Teleported a Photon from Earth to Orbit for the First Time This is an essential step towards establishing a global-scale quantum internet." . . . because there's no way I can prove they're being truthful (any more than you can prove they are??), therefore my default is scepticism. The link is from one of the many space magazines, and their revenue, inter alia, is obviously from circulation figures, and circulation depends on sensationalist reporting; and the more publications there are in the market, the more they must depend on bizarre stuff to survive? Simply put, you believe it but I don't?