Here, you're conflating "bad driving" with "dangerous driving." The idea that "bad drivers" are the ones causing collisions, and that they can be corrected is n

Here, you're conflating "bad driving" with "dangerous driving." The idea that "bad drivers" are the ones causing collisions, and that they can be corrected is not correct. I agree that bad driving is bad. I agree that bad driving will lead to collisions, but it doesn't follow necessarily that "bad drivers" are the reason that there are more injury and deaths. My contention is that, in general, we have a vehicle collision casino, and American roads just have better odds at creating collisions. The most dangerous roads aren't the ones with the highest speeds: https://uk.motor1.com/news/415257/most-dangerous-road-types-in-uk/ https://uk.motor1.com/news/415257/most-dangerous-road-types-... The most dangerous roads are the ones where people aren't predictable. Every time you pass hidden driveway, every time someone is crossing on-coming traffic, every time someone changes lanes, every time someone crosses a crosswalk, society rolls the dice, and there is some level of randomness of uncertainty could cause a collision. The more you roll those dice, and the higher speeds involved, the more injuries and deaths you'll cause. It will happen even if all the drivers are driving reasonably. This is why controlled-access highways are surprisingly safe despite their high speeds. Road design is everything in this model. "Stroad" type roads, that feature people regularly entering and crossing the road, and random, and generally unpredictable intervals are notorious for their dangers. Semi-rural roads, with regular blind driveways, and little-to-no room for error narrowness, and the other type of extremely dangerous road, because the speed and narrowness lead to the same high levels of injury and death. Both of these types of road are not dangerous because of bad driving, they are inherently dangerous, but, i agree, bad driving makes them worse. I contend that the design, however, is integral to the danger of the road. This is the only reason you can have roads, like interstate highways, with the most deadly conditions (extreme speeds, large speed deltas during traffic, near-constant rule breaking) and yet the roads are some of the least dangerous that we have.