One issue is that the motor vehicle fatalities table seems to include data from buses (that is how I understand the references), which are safer than cars. I t

One issue is that the motor vehicle fatalities table seems to include data from buses (that is how I understand the references), which are safer than cars. I tried looking at the sources for the passenger rail data but a quick glance was not very informative. Here is another study, from 2010, showing some very different numbers: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436.pdf http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~ipsavage/436.pdf