Usually rates like this are calculated "per mile traveled" or using some other normalising factor to make them comparable. And yeah, I don't need to go get your

Usually rates like this are calculated "per mile traveled" or using some other normalising factor to make them comparable. And yeah, I don't need to go get your citations for you but you are now using "I would think" rather than looking at numbers and I'm telling you that the numbers say they are less safe. They could go away pretty quickly if there was the political will. We have made large overhauls of societal infrastructure quickly in the past and we could do it again but people are too comfortable to take these matters seriously.