Thanks, then people are not so bad at driving after all.
I checked your numbers and you seem to be correct. Except from the chart it’s 1.38 per 100 million or 72 million miles between deadly accidents, but that is still a lot better than ½ a million that I originally thought. I’m guessing 77 was a typo? 👍
Its not that most people are shit drivers, if you could dissect the numbers further you would see a minority of drivers involved in the majority of crashes. I know people who have been in 3 crashes in the past year and have driven under 15K miles.
If you look at countries where the driver training is more vigorous and the punishment for bad driving more severe, you’ll see that accident rate plummet further. This is especially true of traffic fatalities
I have driven more than a million miles in North america over the past 20 years and been rear-ended once due to the shit driver behind me failing to stop. I have zero accidents that are my fault in my driving history. I credit it to going through the British driver training system. It was an absolute nightmare to pass but it made me a much better driver.
Thanks, then people are not so bad at driving after all.
I checked your numbers and you seem to be correct. Except from the chart it’s 1.38 per 100 million or 72 million miles between deadly accidents, but that is still a lot better than ½ a million that I originally thought. I’m guessing 77 was a typo? 👍
Thanks for checking! That was in fact a typo and I edited my comment to reflect it!
Its not that most people are shit drivers, if you could dissect the numbers further you would see a minority of drivers involved in the majority of crashes. I know people who have been in 3 crashes in the past year and have driven under 15K miles.
If you look at countries where the driver training is more vigorous and the punishment for bad driving more severe, you’ll see that accident rate plummet further. This is especially true of traffic fatalities
I have driven more than a million miles in North america over the past 20 years and been rear-ended once due to the shit driver behind me failing to stop. I have zero accidents that are my fault in my driving history. I credit it to going through the British driver training system. It was an absolute nightmare to pass but it made me a much better driver.