Where is that 80M number coming from? In 2010 there were 214M people with drivers licenses in the United States[1]. The NHTSA provides stats around this actuall

Where is that 80M number coming from? In 2010 there were 214M people with drivers licenses in the United States[1]. The NHTSA provides stats around this actually, the number of fatalities per 100,000 licensed drives around ~23[2]. So every year out of all the licensed drivers in the United States, .02% die. Or over a 50 year period, about a .9% chance of dying... 1. http://www.statista.com/topics/1197/car-drivers/ http://www.statista.com/topics/1197/car-drivers/ 2. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx