Traffic Fatality Rates

You're looking at the wrong metric.1.33 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle miles travelled.That's amazingly good considering most people, if they drive at all, travel about 0.5% of that distance in their lifetime.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

counterpoint: https://www.google.com/search?q=motor+vehicle+deaths

Yes, car deaths have decreased by multiple orders of magnitude in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Vehicle fatalities per capita and per mile travelled have been dropping in the US for decades. As has the absolute number of deaths.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...

Is life not as valuable in the US? Or are there fewer crashes?

Your claim isn't backed up by the data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Well traffic deaths per capita are about double in the US so that probably carries over to other insurance-triggering incidents.

The chart in the article is deaths per capita. Deaths per mile driven would be more relevant. Americans drive much more than people in the other countries mentioned (https://internationalcomparisons.org/environmental/transport...), a large part (but not all) of the discrepancy is due to that.

Not reflected in stats? US traffic accidents per capita per year is nowhere near the top. Maybe about average.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

> It's sadly not surprising how many people are killed on the roads.In 2013, US, total number of traffic deaths was 32719. Total number of miles driven: 2,946,000,000,000.Miles driven per one death: 90,039,426It's not even one-in-a-million chance of dying. It's one-in-90-million chance. That is really very good odds. Driving is really quite safe and getting safer all the time. Cars manufactured today have safety systems and braking ability, traction control and other s