[lotsofpulp]

But there are a million times more “sedan” cars than boats, traveling a million more miles.

An 18 and a 78 year old just killed two different sets of four people a couple weeks ago in SF and near Seattle. The 18 year old totaled his 3rd car in less than a year driving far above the speed limit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-medi...

https://komonews.com/news/local/renton-deadly-multi-vehicle-...

Edit: to respond to below, it depends what you count as damage. Do you count all the deaths and injuries of all auto vehicles? There are 40k+ deaths and many more injuries per year in the US. How about the effect of car centric designs on kids not being able to roam around neighborhoods? Of course, it all gets abstract very quickly, since you also have to start comparing benefits, but there are very large systemic effects (and just the same with huge container ships of course).

[keepamovin]

That's a good point about relative frequencies, and it's the saddest of tragedies what occured in the stories you list. So tragic...

In the abstract, outside of the tragedy of these unfortunate events, it's true that there's more cars, however...think of it like, there's far more background radiation particles than neutron radiation particles. But the damage you can do with one, is far less than the other.