The average driver is far safer than the average driver.
Fatality Facts
the average driver is not drunk, but the average fatality almost is drunk.
america has about 35,000 fatal road accidents per year, approximately 1:1 ratio fatal accident : fatality
about half of those fatalities are drivers(17,000), 11,000 drivers have a BAC reading and 5,000 have a BAC reading of >0.08
ok, so 35,000-11,000 is 24,000 fatal accidents involving sober drivers. lets
assume none involve invasive movements from drunks, pedestrians and cyclists. so if america has 225,000,0000 license holders having 24,000 fatalities per year, thats almost a 1:10,000 ratio of fatality per year. so each year, 9,999 average drivers have no fatalities, 1 average driver has a fatality.
1:10,000 ratio of fatality per year , is high, over 50years thats 1 in 200 odds.
so 99.5% of drivers are safe enough to never ever have a fatality, its the last 0.5% that are the problem
having a car that is far worse than the average driver, but far better than the average drunk driver, could save many lives!!!