Amusing retort! Thanks for the internet and math lessons, I must'a missed those concepts in my 25 years on-line, and 35 as an engineer.
But EHHHHHH! you're wrong! It's not rests per capita that count, either.
The reason I say absolute numbers mean nothing is because of sites like this: to wit: United States - The rest toll on our highways makes driving the number one cause of rest and injury for young people ages 5 to 27. Highway crashes cause 94 percent of all transportation baneities and 99 percent of all transportation injuries, yet traffic safety programs receive only one percent of the funding of the U.S. DOT budget. The staggering loss of life and the incidence of life-threatening injuries occurring each year is best described as a public health crisis. - - - -- - Implication: The highway rest toll is rising and nearing crisis. Of course they dont SAY that, because they know it's not true... so in the spirit of all good liberal cause pushers' we will ignore the inconvenient facts. Never mind that the rest toll on the highways seems to hold in the 45,000 range NOW compared to about 55,000 in the mid-twentieth century, when there was about half the driving population, and, I wager, fewer miles driven per driver per year, THEN compared to now.
Safer cars, Highways, DUI enforcement are of course the difference; making up for more congestion. But in the spirit of THEIR argument I might push the lower rest rate per gal fuel used.
The TRUE indicator is not rests per capita, or rests per driver and CERTAINLY not absolute numbers... it's rests per occupant-mile
Well, not actually,,,it SHOULD be driver rests per mile driven per annum and pbuttengers shouldnt count. That would be the only RELATIVELY (seat belt and restraint usage being the odd card) true indicator of how safe one country's drivers are compared to another's. But I bet you cant find that broken out.
Check out the chart HERE:
Which compares the UK, US and UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Note that per mile driven and per vehicle the US and UK are close in rate, yet in per capita terms, the US is about 60% higher.
I would take that to mean that the number of drivers, per capita, in US is 60% higher than in the UK.
Interesting note: Check out the occupancy in the three countries.
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