Who said anything about worldwide fatalities? Apples and oranges. "Entirely avoidable" is a strange term in this context. All 1.25 million deaths were technica

Who said anything about worldwide fatalities? Apples and oranges. "Entirely avoidable" is a strange term in this context. All 1.25 million deaths were technically avoidable, but not without causing significantly worse harm, suffering, and death instead. We don't actually know what caused the increase, right now we're just speculating. Now, the NHTSA puts a $6.0 million price tag on the economic value of preventing a US traffic fatality, and based on that figure we prevent as much as we can.