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I don't know how to tell you this, except to say that how terrible drivers are is summed up in the fatalities/mile statistic, and the number of miles is indeed
by burnished 5y ago
I don't know how to tell you this, except to say that how terrible drivers are is summed up in the fatalities/mile statistic, and the number of miles is indeed important here. The way you are responding is completely counter but you don't provide any evidence. If what you said was true then the fatality/miles ratio would be much higher.
- Scoundreller 5y agoHere’s evidence: Amongst OECD countries, US is near the bottom. One EU country is slightly worse (Belgium), Czechs are twice as bad, and every other EU country is better, the biggest at least a third less, the best being well under half the US rate of fatalities / km: https://statlinks.oecdcode.org/752017011P1G002.xlsx https://statlinks.oecdcode.org/752017011P1G002.xlsx
- burnished 5y agoYes, that is shown in the study where the author makes a link for the claim. Figure 2 of [1] even shows this, and by eyeball alone it looks like it is closer to 4X more. The point I'm trying to make is that the people who published this graph, who cited the original study, are saying that the total number of fatalities appears to be more impacted by the total miles driven rather than the rate. I tried to dig up where the comparison of miles driven is made but was unable. In any case, the principle point is that while you are correct that American's have a higher fatality rate, if we are also driving significantly more then that could be a bigger problem. If we have 4X the rate, but 10X the miles, it would seem reasonable to say that the distance is the biggest factor. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112220/#SD1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112220/#SD1