[sanxchit]

While I agree with the point you made, I want to point out that the fatality rate for driving an automobile is much lower than 1 in a 1000. In the United States, the number of fatalities per vehicle-mile driven is approximately 1.5e-8[1]. On your average errand run, you have about a one in a hundred million chance of being killed/killing someone.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

[throw_away]

By that stat, you have a 1:66M chance per mile, so I think one in a hundred million is at least an order of magnitude too low. Nowhere close to 1:1000, though.